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0:00hello my friends I'm Dennis Prager
0:01welcome to my home I always emphasize it
0:03as my home for our unscripted completely
0:07spontaneous weekly fireside chat I just
0:11I mean just flew in from Washington DC I
0:15mean I'm in the Los Angeles area and I
0:19was in Washington to testify in the US
0:22Senate invited by Senator Ted Cruz to
0:25testified his Subcommittee on the
0:27Judiciary about the subject of what is
0:31happening to Prager University
0:33videos at the Google / YouTube Google
0:37owns YouTube 56 of our 325 minute videos
0:43are on the restricted list I'll explain
0:46that in a moment and other videos as
0:50well including some fireside chats for
0:52that matter will which stuff is candice
0:57owens stuff is not not just the the
1:00videos that we put out that's a lot and
1:04they have a restricted list for people
1:08who have filters many homes filter out
1:12you know it's very easy to do on your
1:15computer you filter out pornography and
1:17violence that's what they're made for
1:19and when that happens the family the
1:24home or anyone with the filter cannot
1:27see a restricted video so that means
1:31they can't see dozens of our videos
1:34because Google YouTube has decided that
1:37they are to be lumped with pornography
1:39and violence that's what I was called to
1:43Washington to testify with regard to and
1:48it is a larger issue obviously I wasn't
1:52the only witness but I was there were oh
1:56there were just five of us and I was the
1:59one to speak about obviously Prager you
2:02and what is happening and the larger
2:04issue as well there was a representative
2:06from Google I will talk about that
2:08because this entered the realm of the
2:11Twilight Zone
2:13what actually went on in the United
2:15States Senate chambers yesterday or when
2:19you know which is when I when I did this
2:21but in your time it'll be the next day
2:25but it doesn't matter because if you
2:28watch this if you're watching this a
2:30year from now it's completely irrelevant
2:32well I hope it won't be relevant but I
2:34suspect it will be anyway that's what
2:38that's what happened so they had the one
2:42of the heads of of google testify and be
2:45questioned and they asked them senator
2:47cruz to his great credit by the way he's
2:50gutsy for doing this and he's helping
2:52America so senator Cruz asked him why
2:57why did you put the Prager University
2:59video on the ten commandments on the
3:05restricted list it almost sounds crazy
3:09doesn't it it's a video that I made as
3:14it happens and I think it's crazy how
3:20could that be lumped with pornography
3:22and violence then the man actually
3:24answered now you can watch this you can
3:26see it and hear it at Prager EUCOM we
3:30have put it up it's also with Dennis
3:33Prager comm and you can you can see this
3:36the actual answer and my reaction to it
3:41but the actual answer that this man from
3:44google gave well it speaks about I'm
3:50paraphrasing but it speaks about murder
3:54I'm being quiet to let you digest what I
3:58just said now do you understand how
4:02ludicrous that is if the Ten
4:06Commandments does in fact have a
4:08commandment against murder but no one
4:11outside of the left and that's it's I'm
4:17sorry I'm truly sorry this is not a
4:20liberal conservative issue it is a it is
4:23a left conservative and left
4:26issue no one outside of the left would
4:29think even to say well it has murder in
4:35it we don't want young people or we
4:37don't want people with filters or
4:39schools or libraries to see this so it's
4:43either a lie or or an absurdity or both
4:47I think it's both of course it's a lie
4:52you are not going to have a video on the
4:54ten commandments because the 10
4:56commandments is do not murder thou shalt
4:58not murder I'm pleased you might as well
5:02say well we're not going to have it
5:03because it says thou shalt not commit
5:05adultery
5:05we don't want the word adultery in four
5:07filters or stealing why is stealing okay
5:11but but murder isn't and is in terms of
5:14a word to be mentioned
5:17it's the reason of course is they don't
5:21have an answer it's because they want to
5:24hurt any effective conservative voice in
5:28the world
5:29that's Google's job we have a picture of
5:34an email and it within Google an email
5:39sent between people at Google that says
5:43that that Ben Shapiro Jordan Peterson
5:48and Prager you are Nazis
5:52never mind that
5:54that Shapiro and I are Jewish and
5:58committed Jews who were spend good part
6:02of our lives fighting anti-semitism
6:05jordan peterson is such a moral giant
6:08the idea that he that you would he call
6:11him a nazi it is so despicable the
6:15people who do that are so they're evil i
6:17mean let's let's call it by its correct
6:20name so their answer was a lie is just
6:28the guy took it under oath he you know
6:33we all take an oath before we testify i
6:35i don't quite get
6:39how he how he how he lives with himself
6:44we don't we have restricted a video on
6:4810 commandments because it contains
6:50murder anyway everybody knows I mean the
6:55the number of videos up without
6:57restriction that have the word murder
7:00its it was being the tens of thousands I
7:04mean it's an absurdity so you can watch
7:09it you could see gonna pray for you is
7:11it's upright it's all up now right
7:14including the Google man on Facebook i
7:22sat there and i couldn't believe it but
7:26the he he was matched by the senator who
7:30said well there's another reason that
7:35it's this is restricted because it shows
7:39a swastika so I didn't remember actually
7:43I don't remember every video I do every
7:46illustration so I checked it out in in
7:52the Senate chamber itself and yes that's
7:55correct
7:56and what it is is I I say when
8:00describing the commandment against
8:02murder that there were people even in
8:05our modern period who didn't think
8:08murder was wrong and I have a picture of
8:10a swastika and a picture of a hammer and
8:13sickle the two greatest murderous
8:16movements of the modern era communism
8:22about a be eight hundred billion people
8:25and and of course Nazism tens of
8:29millions including the Holocaust so do
8:36you understand I do I think I do
8:38understand if this senator watched this
8:42video I will buy her a house in the
8:47Virgin Islands or Hawaii or wherever she
8:50would like a dream house
8:52even watched the video some aide did the
8:57aide was a fool
9:00the aide just wanted to see try to find
9:06a swastika in a pre university video and
9:08that said say they did but of course the
9:12point that I'm making is how murderous
9:15the swastika is do you not want people
9:19to associate the swastika with murder
9:24that's what we do at Prager you it's
9:32it's it's quite something the sickness
9:36that pervades the left this the Senators
9:40not a liberal the Senate I'm not even
9:41mentioning the Senators name because I
9:43have no desire to humiliate an
9:45individual I don't even mentioned to you
9:46the Google person's name because these
9:49people are generic whether it's this
9:52leftist senator or this leftist Google
9:54person it's irrelevant here he is a lot
9:57of you were wondering where was Otto
9:58Otto out I was so excited to have well
10:01at least my wife back home I'm not sure
10:03he's that excited to have me back home
10:05but he I think he's become aware of the
10:08fact that we are shooting the video
10:10shooting the fireside chat and he's not
10:13present so he's he's meditating does he
10:16go to his position or does he continue
10:19to get rubbed by my wife yeah you know
10:23we should all have such difficult
10:24questions to pose as choices in our
10:28lives so this is this is what it goes on
10:33my friends that this is there's no
10:36reason why our our preview videos are
10:42censored by Google YouTube sometimes
10:46Facebook sometimes Twitter there's no
10:48there's no reason the reason is well
10:51there is a reason but it's never one
10:53that is valid
10:54the reason is because we're the most
10:57effective conservative video voice in
10:59the world with a billion views a year
11:02most of them under 35 years of age
11:07somebody should follow me in an airport
11:10with a with a video camera see all the
11:12young people who walk over I think I
11:15mentioned in Nashville 7-7 in and I'm
11:18not even on the radio in Nashville we're
11:23touching live we're not touching enough
11:24lives that's that's the frustrating part
11:29I never I must I will be totally open
11:32with you I do not think of how
11:34successful we are I think of how much we
11:37have to do and haven't succeeded in
11:40doing if people understood what is going
11:44on at the universities and in the big
11:47tech to suppress conservative voices
11:50they would be alarmed this is alarming
11:53it is the greatest threat to free speech
11:55in American history free speech is what
11:58America is known for that's why we got
12:00the Statue of Liberty and no other
12:02country did France gave it to one
12:04country and it was us because we have
12:07more Liberty to this day but the left
12:09has always opposed Liberty liberals have
12:12always been for Liberty conservatives
12:14have always been for Liberty and the
12:16left has always been opposed to it there
12:18was no exception through what I've just
12:19said Liberty is not a left-wing value
12:23nor is truth you saw them both in
12:27display in the US Senate and you should
12:30look you should also look at my opening
12:32statement we're all allowed five minutes
12:35to make a statement
12:36I gave great thought to that I'm not
12:40sure I ever read a speech in my life
12:42that might have been the first time I
12:43ever read a speech I I knew the amount
12:47of words that I would be allowed if
12:49because I know what five minutes takes
12:51and I I chose I think wisely I I want
13:00you to to view and/or hear that five
13:05minutes statement that I made in the US
13:07Senate it's it's a I think an important
13:11one so that's the state we're in and I
13:15just want to remind you
13:17if you can support Prager you then
13:21you're supporting a freedom I mean
13:24that's that's as simple of that is there
13:27is there a banner up or wear a lot of
13:29people just go to Prager you and donate
13:31it's a and if you're an American it's a
13:33tax-free donation if you're not an
13:35American it isn't obviously unless if
13:38your country allows for it but the
13:41reason to give is not to get a tax
13:42deduction the pieces to give is because
13:45we're fighting the good fight if they
13:49could Google and YouTube would shut us
13:51down by the way some people ask it's an
13:54odd question I'm surprised we get it why
13:56don't we open up our own browser or a
14:00section excuse me search engine and just
14:03get you know ignore YouTube and Google
14:06that is sort of like saying why don't
14:09you start your own airline if you don't
14:12like the airline of your country it's
14:16it's exactly like it's because it how am
14:21I gonna start a new airline and it's
14:25actually hard it's actually easier to
14:27start a new airline because if I started
14:32a new a new search engine let's say we
14:37would call it open to all views dot-com
14:41right search engine it wouldn't matter
14:44because still people will still be using
14:47Google and still be watching things on
14:49YouTube our to and we would get a lot of
14:53people who agree with us to use that
14:55search engine but our task is to change
14:58minds not you I want to give the
15:03intellectual ammunition to the people
15:05who agree with us it's very important
15:07that people who agree with us hear what
15:09we have to say but we also want to touch
15:11people who don't agree with us that's
15:14all though otherwise we can't we might
15:18as well say we give up we have lost the
15:20battle for Western civilization which is
15:23what this is about
15:25so yes of course we could start a search
15:28engine for people who agree with us but
15:30we we want to get
15:31out there in the real world and mix it
15:34up so that's the reason it's it's it's
15:38not feasible the start arrow of course
15:41you could go to Prague or you and watch
15:42our stuff directly you're right you
15:44don't have to do it through YouTube but
15:46more people watch us through Facebook
15:48and and YouTube then directly and even
15:52correctly we use the forum of YouTube
15:54even if you do go to a Praeger you video
15:58no we have to we have to win this battle
16:02so anyway help us out it will tell you
16:06my theory you may have heard it about
16:08good people there are three types of
16:10good people those who fight those who
16:14help the fighters and those who do
16:16nothing the first two are equally
16:19valuable if you help the fighters you
16:21are just as valuable as the fighters but
16:24if you don't do anything you don't do
16:28anything for good things
16:29goodness won't prevail alright
16:34so watch watch my statement and watch
16:37the Google statement at our website so
16:40wait it's only through Facebook it's not
16:42through Prager you directly I'm sure
16:46it'll be online Prager you directly yeah
16:48okay well so the first question is about
16:53this what is the best way from william
16:5527 in minneapolis best way to combat
16:58censorship of free speech Facebook
17:01Twitter YouTube legislation use other
17:04platforms well yes if you could use
17:06other platforms if some obviously
17:10serious number of people did but it
17:12would take a vast number for them to
17:14feel it the the answer is help us it's
17:19up the only answer but it's a it's a big
17:20one because were the the biggest thing
17:23that they that they fear because we're
17:27nice we're rational we're truthful you
17:30know many things come out with pretty
17:32lies do you know if you if you put if
17:36you know if you put in Prager in Google
17:39Prager you is do it right now while it's
17:42like do it on your phone because I
17:45I've checked online on my browser on my
17:49phone my wife checked on hers see what
17:51comes up type in Prager you is and what
17:55do you get
17:56does it get is lying is that one of the
18:00Izzo biased not a University dangerous
18:08lying okay
18:11does that pretty much tell you a lot it
18:15doesn't tell you everything but at that
18:16tell you a lot Prager you is and and
18:20everyone that came up was was a real hit
18:24on us
18:26how about Prager you is opening minds I
18:29don't think that comes up so lying
18:34that's the one that gets me the most
18:35everyone who claims this never gives an
18:38example do you know I'm a columnist I've
18:41been a columnist for 20 years every time
18:44I make a generalization I always back it
18:46up with facts if I say so-and-so lies
18:49then I say here's an example where here
18:51are three examples so but they don't
18:54have an example because we don't lie and
18:56I would never let it lie because lying
18:59is evil and I don't like evil Erica 26
19:04Los Angeles it is is it okay to tell
19:07your spouse / partner you want them to
19:09lose weight or to get in better shape of
19:11course it is the problem is it's very
19:13hard especially for a man to tell that
19:15to his wife or his partner he because he
19:20is afraid of hurting or feelings but now
19:26like everything else context matters the
19:33it's a very long issue I talk about
19:36male-female matters a great deal
19:38if if your spouse has let him or herself
19:44go and it matters to you most of the
19:47time it matters much more to men because
19:50in the human species as opposed to
19:52peacocks the female is the visual or
19:56rouser is it fair it's not fair
19:58is it true yes it's true all right so
20:02the way the female looks is generally
20:05more important what what excites what
20:08women about a man at least when if the
20:11woman is over 25 at the very very most
20:14maybe even over 20 is is he is he funny
20:18is he ambitious is he strong as he
20:21masculine that's what is he smart women
20:26fall in love with brains not that men
20:28don't love brains I love brains but
20:29obviously the the man's brains is an
20:34erotic charge for women for a men the
20:38visual is exceedingly important and and
20:40it's not fair it's not fair actually
20:42it's not even fair to men but it is true
20:44so more more often than not this issue
20:49arises with regard to will the man tell
20:52the woman my general belief is if she's
20:57trying then you got a love her for him
21:00I mean that's just but if she doesn't
21:02try if she if she just she when she
21:07married you she really cared to look
21:10good and then 15 years later she
21:13couldn't care less how she looks how she
21:14dresses how much what she eats and so on
21:17that's that's unfair to you because you
21:21you sort of you you marry the deal we
21:25all marry a deal if if the man was a
21:27hard worker and then 15 years later is a
21:30couch potato you you've got a you've got
21:32a right to be unhappy too though this is
21:36an this is truly the most unspoken
21:40significant issue I think in many
21:42marriages but it has to be confronted
21:48and in a loving way but nevertheless it
21:52should be tayo 16 years old Hong Kong
21:58m'dear mr. Prager I am young black
22:01conservative and I am struggling to
22:03properly present my political beliefs to
22:06my mom who believe she has failed to
22:08properly raise me because of this
22:11I try to have discussions regarding
22:13abortion illegal immigration or even
22:15whether capitalism is the best economic
22:18system currently in the world I don't
22:20know how to make her understand that
22:21conservatives or even America for that
22:23matter aren't full of racists and bigots
22:25best wishes I don't think you can
22:29everything you said is rational people
22:32who deny this are not going to be
22:34persuaded by the rational my my
22:40instinctive recommendation is just be
22:43loving and respectful and say ma there's
22:49really nothing I can say it you know
22:55it's either true or not true
22:57that only capitalism has lifted people
23:00from poverty if you say it isn't true
23:03and I say it is true I don't know what
23:07what there is to talk about America is
23:12the is the least racist place on on
23:14earth where there are many ethnic and
23:18racial groups and for that matter where
23:20there are in many ethnic and racial
23:23groups Asian countries is so much more
23:27racist than Americans and you if you're
23:31not Japanese you can't become a citizen
23:33of Japan for all intents and purposes
23:36the trouble is Americans haven't lived
23:39there experienced foreign societies they
23:42don't realize how much race matters
23:44elsewhere and it doesn't matter in
23:46America America has produced a
23:49staggering number of naive people and
23:51they're all on the Left because the
23:53moment you shed now you say you leave
23:55the left you have to be naive to be on
23:58the Left about real evil about racism
24:01etc etc I feel bad for you just love
24:05your mother up and and give up it's not
24:10I don't know what else you can do
24:12ironically I think your mother produced
24:14a great son that's the irony what's our
24:19time frame
24:23yes okay fine let's do one more here
24:27Aaron 33 Houston what do you think of a
24:31married couple choosing to have no
24:33children well I would like to ask them
24:36why they made that choice to me you live
24:40once I believe in an afterlife but you
24:42live here once that's my belief so I
24:46have always thought I want to maximize
24:51rich experiences in life I don't want to
24:54miss out I don't know why people would
24:57want to miss out if they could be
25:00parents why they would want to miss out
25:01on that opportunity the growth the
25:05experience the love the anguish the
25:08everything why would you say I want to
25:12take the easy way out it's all the
25:14visits it's generally the easy way out
25:16it's the easy way out and perhaps not
25:19even to get married but you're married
25:21anyway I'd like to know if you're not
25:23having children because of global
25:25warming then I I salute you I think all
25:29those who think that the world will go
25:31extinct because of carbon emissions
25:33should not have children I think it's a
25:36blessing that many of them have decided
25:38not to have children if you're that
25:40foolish
25:41you shouldn't have children but
25:43otherwise I I don't know why anybody
25:47would make that option and it's so sad
25:49because so many couples want children
25:51who can have children I wish they could
25:53swap but it doesn't work that way why
25:59would you want to forsake one of the
26:02most rich experiences a human could have
26:05to be a parent so you can go to
26:10restaurants more often take more trips
26:15okay please help us at Prager you please
26:19watch those videos about my Senate
26:21appearance and I will see you next week
26:24from my home to yours god bless you
26:27thanks for watching I'm Dennis Prager
26:30thank you for watching if you'd like to
26:32keep these fireside chats free please do
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