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Did you know that 11 of the
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12, astronauts who walked on the moon were eagle scouts?
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I didn't know the exact no, i knew armstrong was.
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Yeah, 11 of the 12.
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So this was an institution in the country
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That trained young men in the way they should go.
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It actually honored god.
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It told them to honor god.
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You could be an atheist and be a boy scout in good standing.
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Yeah.
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So this was
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And it gave them obviously outdoor skills
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And so much more character building.
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And then what did they do?
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They went woke.
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They did the diy thing.
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They actually changed their name from boy scouts
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To scouts of america because why they like
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Now you have the lead in girls.
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Now there's actually really important psychology behind
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Why that's bad.
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You need male only institutions. yes.
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Of courses. and why?
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Because imagine a guy, a young boy in front of a
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Bunch of other boys, is going to try and fail
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And embarrass himself
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Way more readily
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Than if you put a bunch of girls in front of him.
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If the girls are watching,
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He's not going to want to make a fool of himself.
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He's not going to want to do a bunch of stuff.
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When you take teenage boys and you insert women in there
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Instantly, everything becomes about
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Their relations, like with those women,
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And they become much more likely
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To compete with each other
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Rather than to cooperate with each other.
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Tons of psychological stuff goes into this.
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Actually, charlie, i didn't realize. charlie.
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There's an old clip of charlie. he's made my point.
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I just made 603
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When i was 13 years old, and i was worrying
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About climbing a rock or starting a fire.
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If there were young
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Ladies around, i would not have been
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Climbing a rock or starting a fire.
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I would have been much distracted and talking,
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Trying to make, you know, trying to make myself
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More socially acceptable and so on and so forth.
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There's a lot of character development
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That happens between those critical ages
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And being around other young men
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That are going to
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The same problems and failing and taking risks,
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I think, is something that has made
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The boy scouts so successful.
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And it's also those of people that have studied
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Gender exclusive education.
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Goes to show the exact same thing
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Is that focus, attention to detail, especially amongst
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Those critical ages, is something
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That we should not sacrifice to when i was 13 years old.
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He looked there.
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I know that is classic.
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Charlie southern is right on target.
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Totally. yeah, it was right on target.
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But you could tell he was it was younger. it was great.
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So the big news this morning is that pete.
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Seth.
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Because you gotta
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Understand the boy scouts and the, secretary of war,
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Or the there's the department of war.
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There's a been a long running sort of kind of collaboration.
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You know, they that's a pipeline.
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They would do the scout jamboree,
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And it would be on a military base.
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And there always be a lot of time
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They meet on military bases.
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So pete hegseth gets in there.
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And this was actually something that he told me about before
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He was even in he that this was something
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That he wanted to focus on and fix.
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And he has news this morning, 601 scouting
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America agreed to make several key reforms.
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First, no more d.i.
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Zero.
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Scouting america will modify its policy
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To make clear that membership will be based solely on
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Biological sex at birth, and not gender identity.
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Scouting will also make clear that biological boys and girls
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Will not be allowed to occupy or share intimate spaces
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Together toilets, showers, tents anywhere like that.
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Scouting america will honor those who serve
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By waiving the registration fees for children
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Of active duty, guard and reserve families.
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In partnership with the war
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Department, scouting
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America will introduce a new military service merit badge.
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These and other changes that scouting america's leadership
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Committed to, will hopefully result in a rededication
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To the foundational ideals
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That have defined scouting for generations.
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Duty to god and country
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Leadership, character and service.
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You have to have strength of your own convictions,
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The courage of your own convictions
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To stop the onslaught.
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You have to be able to defend the good, the true,
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The beautiful.
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You cannot let the horde of vipers and wokeism
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In our era take down what is good.
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Ultimately, we have to be men,
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Strong men, willing to defend those institutions.
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And yes, women need to defend them as well.
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But candidly, we're talking about boy scouts.
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You need to raise up strong men.
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I am telling you, there is no more,
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More effective, powerful force on the planet
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Than a well-formed, matured,
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Fully functional, intelligent,
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Self-assured male man
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That is a power
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Source for western civilization that cannot be defeated.
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And so there will be all kinds of assaults
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Against the development of young men into fully grown,
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Fully matured men.
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It just will be.
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And we have to protect the formation of men.
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It's one of the critical duties of the show.
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It's one of the critical duties of turning point.
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Yes, we care about the women.
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Yes, of course.
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But i'm telling you,
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Young men, fully formed, fully ready
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To take on the challenges of this generation in the next
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And the next.
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After that, if we have those men, western civilization
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Will not only survive, it will thrive.
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Will not only survive, it will thrive.
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I am so excited for our next guest.
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He's a man that needs no introduction to this audience.
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But i will say it anyways.
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Dennis prager is one of the most respected
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And influential thinkers, writers, and speakers
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In america.
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He's a nationally syndicated talk show host.
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He is the founder of prager university and is a new york
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Times bestselling author of nine books.
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And he's a man who's been through a lot.
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But most importantly to this audience, as you all know,
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He was a dear friend and mentor to charlie kirk
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And dennis.
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Welcome back to the charlie kirk show.
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It is an indescribable honor to have you.
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I, i'm delighted to be with you.
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I'm delighted to be with you.
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Because you're you.
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Because it's tp usa,
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And because i'm delighted
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To be able to speak. yes.
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Being perfectly honest. yes.
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For those who don't know, i.
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I had a catastrophic fall in my home
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On november 12th of 2024,
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Which left me paralyzed from the shoulders down
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And not breathing
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Without a ventilator and not speaking.
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I'm here.
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I am having an interview with you.
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So you can imagine for all those reasons.
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And finally, i just might note,
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When i watch the funeral service and,
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And other memorial services for charlie,
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And i heard all these people describe themselves
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As charlie's closest friends. i.
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I thought it was a great credit to charlie.
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Like kids who think,
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You know, they have five kids,
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And each one thinks that they are the parents favorite.
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The parents did a good job, charlie did a good job.
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But i would just like to remind everybody,
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Or maybe they didn't even know it.
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So remind might not be the actual verb.
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And that is that his last
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Book on shabbat?
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On, taking a day in the name of god.
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Yep. there it is.
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Stop! in the name of god,
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By honoring the sabbath will transform
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Your life was dedicated to me.
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Charlie wrote a beautiful dedication.
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Charlie called me.
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I would say almost every week,
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Or at least 5 or 8 years.
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And, he.
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He would call
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After listening to another tape of mine
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On, the torah,
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The first five books of the bible
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With questions
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And the whole idea of shabbat
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Came from our interactions.
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So, you know, i'm supposed to promote my book,
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But here i am
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Promoting charlie's book.
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Well, know.
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It's a beautiful,
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Beautiful testament to your guys's friendship.
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You shared a deep, deep bond.
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And i
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And and we are going to get to your book,
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Which is titled if there is no god
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The battle over who defines good and evil
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And one of, your most famous questions
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Which relates to your book, of course, is the
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It's a famous one from from, your days on the radio.
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If your beloved,
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If your beloved dog and a stranger are drowning,
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Who do you save first?
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This became a incredibly famous question.
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It's also sort of a starting point for this book.
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Please explain.
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That's right.
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I've actually been asking this question
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For 50 years.
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50 years.
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And the results,
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Have been the same
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Throughout those 50 years.
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I would ask high school
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Students or college students
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If they loved their dogs,
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Which everybody who has one does.
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And if a stranger
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Were drowning and their dog were drowning,
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Who would they try to say first?
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I know that they would all love to say both and so on,
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But they have to try to save one first
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In virtually every instance.
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Cut across economic,
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Racial, religious lines
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In virtually every instance,
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One third of the of the group
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Said they would save the stranger.
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One third said the dog and one
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Third didn't know what they would do.
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Two thirds of americans over half a century,
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Would not save, would not save.
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Would not say that they would save this stranger.
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And that led me to the.
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The whole supposition of the book,
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That was that what they were doing
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Is substituting emotions
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Or values.
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I love my dog is an emotion.
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Humans are created in.
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God's image is a value.
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That's why i would save a stranger
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Before my beloved dogs.
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My wife really loves our dogs.
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I only love them.
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She really loves them
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And she would save a stranger first
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Because she believes
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That people are created in god's image
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And animals are not.
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It's.
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I really want to drive home for anyone
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Who is a more recent listener, just and or just didn't know
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How important
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Your moral guidance was to charlie
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When he would think about moral questions.
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Andrew, you know, he had mentioned this in private.
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You know,
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Dennis says this this is how dennis used this problem.
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He really looked up to you for moral reasoning like that
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And for framing things,
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Like so many things that you would say.
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And we would hear him repeat on campuses
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Because you have that great way of distilling
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Like that difference,
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You know, using emotions instead of values and
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The subtle differences between them.
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I want us to play one of those clips
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Just to illustrate that we have charlie,
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Citing you for a moral question for 87.
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I learned this from the great dennis prager, which says,
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Stop focusing on intentions, focus on the actions.
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That's a much better way to
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Judge whether or not something is right or wrong.
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Intentions, as i've said before,
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And there's a video that went viral.
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The nazis thought they were doing good.
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They convinced themselves that they were doing good,
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When in reality they were doing
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Some of the greatest evil in the history of the species.
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That's very moving to me.
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Obviously, i don't know if either of you know this.
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Charlie visited me in my hospital room
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And he brought a, a copy
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Of the treads of the,
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Of the transcript,
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Of his, of his book.
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Little did i know.
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Little.
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It never occurred to me,
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Of course, that i would not see charlie again.
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And, and it broke my heart
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On, on every grounds.
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Well, yeah.
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Dennis, even in the aftermath of charlie's assassination
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Of your your subtitle,
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The battle over who defines good and evil,
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And you think about,
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I would say the vast majority of people reacted
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As you would expect and hope in to the tragedy
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And sadness and horror and shock, but there was
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Some voices that reacted in glee in celebration.
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And i can't help but think of your subtitle in that book
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As the perfect distillation of why who?
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The battle of who gets to find good and evil matters so much.
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One minute in this segment, dennis.
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Well, if,
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If man determines humans, determine
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What is good and evil,
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Then, you can have moral inversions
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Where the nazis are good, are good guys, and
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The jews and others are bad guys.
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You have that now, in the middle east,
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Where all of a sudden the.
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The nazis of our time,
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The true nazis of our time, hamas
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Are the good guys.
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They're battling colonialism.
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And israel is a democracy
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With one fifth of its citizens are arab muslims
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Who thrive there and who supported israel.
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By and large, in this war.
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Israel is is the bad guy.
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We we are living in a morally inverted universe,
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Moral inversions.
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Because of secular secularism and losing track
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Of god's value system and design for our lives.
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More with dennis prager, the great dennis prager.
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When we get back.
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When we get back.
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Charlie's mentor, dear friend, the man
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He dedicated his final book to, dennis prager,
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Who is a legend, an icon
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And one of the most important moral teachers of our time.
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Dennis, i want to ask you a question
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That you address in the book.
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It's called the problem of pain.
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C.s. lewis said,
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You know, how does your book answer the question of why
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A supposedly good god allows for so much suffering
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And evil in the world?
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I, i've dealt with that
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All of my life, and,
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I have so much to say on it.
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I'll try to be concise.
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All right, first of all,
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People need to deal with that issue
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Before tragedy strikes in their life.
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If you start thinking about
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That question.
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Well, only once you've been hurt,
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It's too late.
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I, i, for whatever reason,
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Was preoccupied
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With the problem of evil
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From my high school days.
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So i have i dealt with it before.
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I was personally, hit by the tragedy
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That i am currently living.
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All right.
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And therefore, i already had answers,
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People, i'll give you a great example.
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A woman called by a radio show
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Many years ago said, you know,
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I just want you to know, dennis, that,
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I always vehemently disagree
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With you on capital punishment.
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I was opposed to capital punishment.
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And you were, ardently for it.
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Well, i've come around now to your point of view.
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I'm for capital punishment.
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And i said, why so?
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Because my brother was murdered.
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So of
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Course, i offered condolences.
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But then i said
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What needed to be said
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That i said
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I said to her, hey, wait a minute.
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So when millions of other people's
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Brothers were murdered, you never asked the question.
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And she agreed.
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She never asked the question before.
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This is a common,
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Flaw in the human species.
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We deal with issues
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Only when we are confronted by them.
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You've got to deal with these issues
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Way before you're hit by them.
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I did.
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Why may of dealing with it,
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Is, through reason.
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And religion
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Is the greatest combination there is,
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Judeo-christian religions
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And, and reason
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And, and that is that
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God allows evil to take place
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Because
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We, we would be robots,
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Otherwise life would lose its meaning.
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People would
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No longer be a free species.
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So that has to happen.
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And as regards,
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A natural, evil,
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If you will, cancer of the,
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Of the undeserving.
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You're right.
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That's a we don't have an answer to that.
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I've read book after book
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By theologian after theologian.
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There's no great answer to that.
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To the question.
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And,
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Therefore, we,
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We have only jobs.
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The answer at the end of job,
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Where god says, where were you
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When i created the world?
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Do you know why eagles make nests?
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In other words,
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We're like puppies.
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As, compared to human beings
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And our ability to understand life
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When we
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Compare ourselves to god,
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We don't know the answer.
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But i will say, i do believe that there's bad luck.
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Most religious people differ with me,
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But i think god, in my case,
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God allowed gravity
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To, lack of friction
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To take its course.
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Well, what was he supposed to do?
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Stop.
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Stop it from happening to me?
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I mean, i wrote this stuff
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Decades before.
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What happened to me? i,
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It's a remarkable.
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And i know one thing i think about.
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I know charlie had wanted
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To do his sabbath book even before your accident.
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I know he was planning it, but i also recall, after it
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Occurred,
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I know that really motivated him
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To make sure
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That was his next book that he would work on,
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And it moved him to complete it quickly.
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I, i don't know if that offers some solace to you or not,
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But i think i know charlie drew some inspiration.
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He really wanted to get this dennis inspired book
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Because he knew, you know, maybe he wouldn't recover,
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And he wanted to make sure that he would have been able
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To carry on your legacy as well,
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With his own work and true.
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Now, i don't i know none of us expected this,
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But we're glad that i guess you could return the favor.
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You are continuing charlie's legacy.
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We're trying to continue charlie's legacy. that's right.
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What happened? yeah.
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And i dedicated to
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My book, which is coming out now.
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If there is no god, to charlie,
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As it happens,
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Which i would have done anyway.
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But now it was to charlie's memory,
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Which i still, to this day, i find that
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Almost as unbelievable as my
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My paralysis.
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Charlie kirk is dead.
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I yeah,
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It's this vibrant,
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Incredibly young man.
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It's.
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I know,
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Yeah, everybody, please go get a copy
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Today of dennis's incredibly important new book.
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If there is no god,
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The battle over who defines good and evil, get it?
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Today, everywhere books are sold.
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Dennis prager, god bless you and we'll talk with you soon.
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You too. thank you.
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Dennis Prager: March 2, 2026 | Charlie Kirk Today

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