Ep. 356 — Is the Medical Industry Corrupt? | Fireside Chat

Hello there everybody Dennis Prager here with fireside chat 356. It's my chance to share with you some thoughts On what is on my mind And take your questions. I love doing this. We we have been consistent for 356 weeks except one Which really rankles me as you probably know by now Okay, so A few opening thoughts. I think they'll be relatively brief so I can take more of your questions But I I never know to be perfectly honest because it truly is spontaneous As you can probably tell I am not reading from a teleprompter Is that mr. Tubbs in the background? Is he looking for a spot? He's trying is he checking the grass for where yes For where I he might lie down well a a guest that I have Fireside chat and I have very few guests on the fireside chat I I average two a year And i'm not even sure we did two this year Not yet, right? So, uh, it's it's very rare that I have a guest one of them was robert f kennedy jr and I I don't uh agree with him on everything that he says well I mean, which is almost silly to say because there's very few people you agree with on everything, but It doesn't matter the point is there are areas of disagreement and I have immense respect for him, which is why I invited him For a fireside chat. I've had him on my radio show a number of times. I've spoken at a few of his events As well, so we have a warm relationship and he has now announced that he will be Endorsing that he is endorsing donald trump for the presidency So just a few words about him and then the the theme About what has happened that I also want to address and that is His family's his siblings reaction To his endorsing donald trump the president The the greatest I think the greatest Characteristic that people can embrace Is courage It's certainly the rarest There are far more kind people nice people generous people loyal people Than there are courageous people There are many nice people who are not courageous It's a it's a very rare trait and The human race cannot really continue If too few people exhibit courage Look just think of how little courage was exhibited during covet In a community that you would expect is that is he looking for a new spot? This is genuinely funny He found his spot It was a great search See if you search you shall find so he he has courage he he has I this I am certain of And by the way, I I did not take him particularly seriously. I didn't even pay much attention to him much of his career I only knew that he was sounding alarms with regard to the staggering number of vaccines given to children and that Those alarms He felt obviously were worthy of people taking seriously I didn't take them seriously. I never I never attacked him or dismissed him. I never thought he was a buffoon. I just I I I was Hands off. I just had no position And moved on with my life then covet came and the staggering amount of dishonesty uh from uh, the the heads of medicine in the united states cbc nih Uh fda It it was across the board Just a genuine dishonesty a misleading of the public the nonsense about masks the nonsense about distances uh, the uh, the lies about people who died With kovid as having died of kovid. There's a very big difference So that literally you could have been hit by a Truck gotten killed by the truck But if you had kovid you might have been listed by a hospital as having died of kovid In order to collect a great sum of money from the government for every kovid death in your hospital and then Of course the vaccine itself, which turns out not to be a vaccine and My my belief at this point Never would have predicted I would have such a belief that a fair number of people Uh have actually been hurt by the vaccine some even died of it Uh, and I don't have evidence that it particularly helped Just about anybody it might have I I doubt it So that made me take robert f kennedy jr. Very seriously with regard to vaccines and then the more I have learned The more I have come to respect his descent You know I i've given this example a few times I don't know if I have on the fireside chat, but I know that I have on my radio show and and perhaps elsewhere the one of the most prestigious Medical clinics in america is the mayo clinic based in rochester, minnesota and now has branches elsewhere And I remember for whatever reason I was curious to see what was being said About the question are cigars as dangerous as cigarettes And I know for a fact I know it as I know that I am seated in a chair It is it what i'm about to say is not a belief. It is a fact Cigars are not nearly as dangerous as cigarettes and the reason is extremely simple Very few people who smoke a cigar inhale Everyone who smokes a cigarette inhales And it's the it's the bringing into your lungs the smoke That is the primary danger Whereas you don't have that the purpose of smoking is to taste tobacco in your mouth The purpose of smoking cigars the purpose of smoking cigarettes is to bring nicotine into your lungs They they both use fire and they both have tobacco, but they have nothing else in common So I looked up this question and I sure enough it took me to the mayo clinic website and I saw Cigar smoking is as dangerous as cigarette smoking. So one of the premier medical clinics in america lies I mean, it's an out and out lie And and now the american medical association has announced that Children should not The sex of children should not be listed on their birth certificates The american medical association the children's hospitals that support and even advocate horrible things done to children who claim that they are the other sex or other gender in their in their parlance or matter of manner of speech so All of this has led me to take robert f kennedy jr more and more seriously With regard to the vaccine schedule for children And then with the the armed forces kicking out or the members of the armed forces who would not take the the vaccine the covid vaccine I I spoke the other day on my radio show about How it is virtually zero the number of people in britain Under the age of 14, I believe it is who died of covid it's it's either one or two in the entire united kingdom that That's incredible and yet We have the medical profession Insisting that parents give their babies the covid vaccine It can't help and it can hurt So in other words, the medical profession is corrupt That doesn't mean every doctor is corrupt. I go to doctors doctors have saved my life. I'm not naive about that. I'm not a fool Nothing ever means everyone to say that the medical profession is corrupt is not to say that every doctor is corrupt Okay, just I I feel like I have to say it. It's very sad that I have to say it, but nevertheless I am So all of this has led me to greater respect for robert f. Kennedy jr for what for him and for what he says and When I have followed him more and more I realized this man says What is true? And let the chips fall where they may his robust defense of israel Which any clearly morally thinking person should offer like douglas murray is another example who does but robert f kennedy jr and his mastery of Middle east I was the middle east institute. I studied hebrew and arabic. I have been to these countries I have studied this all of my life I I was dazzled by his knowledge of the middle east when he when he was challenged by Anti-israel interviewers and he's very happy to go on with interviewers who don't agree with him Because he actually knows his material and and he knows how to convey it So I have great respect for him and then he came out and he Endorsed donald trump. I hope that if donald trump wins he is given a position in the trump administration Robert f kennedy jr is one of 11 children of robert f kennedy the Attorney general of the united states the brother of john f kennedy And and his wife ethel That is robert kennedy the senior one and so he has He has had ted siblings two of them have died one in a in a skiing accident one of an overdose And the rest I I looked into this All came out against him. They've all publicly come out and said he's a disgrace to the family It doesn't speak well for them I'm, i'll be very personal while my wife and children are Share my values totally i'm i'm and I I really I thank god for that uh And I I have a wonderful extended family But none of them are or almost none of them are as conservative as I am Many are liberal One only one is a leftist, but many are liberal and they almost all vote They all vote to the best of my knowledge Except again for one that I know of a democrat It would never occur to them to make a public statement and and I and I Am very public obviously I am much more a face of conservatism than robert f kennedy jr. Is Who who remains essentially a liberal? He's not he's not he's just not a leftist. He's anti-left Which is what every liberal should be uh It would it would never dawn on on my my my family To uh to come out with a public statement condemning me saying I was a disgrace to the prager name and the prager family Uh, he can claim and I don't blame him. Oh, well, you know, I still I I love them. But you know, we just we just differ That I understand love loving your relatives with whom you differ I do But I but I don't forgive the relatives For coming out publicly and saying he's a disgrace to the kennedy name. First of all, it's very hard to disgrace the kennedy name It's somewhat of a disgrace name if you actually read about the family There's a book I just read about What is I don't remember the title kennedy the kennedy women and it's not about women who are kennedy's But the way women have been treated by kennedy's uh, it's it And it was a liberal woman a woman on the left who uh actually wrote the book uh, it it's it it it is not uh, a uh a particularly special group of people the kennedy's But that doesn't matter What what did what? This does is prove to me how unspecial they are That they would go out and say he is a disgrace He doesn't agree with them. So he's a disgrace to the kennedy name I feel bad for robert f kennedy jr to have siblings of such of such low moral quality That's that's my my that's my reaction He can claim he loves them all he wants and I totally understand that he wants to take the high road so to speak But I don't have to take the high road with regard to his siblings. They stink period What one is one is as ugly as the other in terms of humanity it's Now they may think that endorsing donald trump is the same as endorsing adolf hitler And by the way, they probably do because they all have uh college educations and some went to graduate school And they generally live in new york or massachusetts All very dangerous signs to one's moral quality and ability to think wisely That's that's what it produces this was this This condemnation and this this all and this condemnation of their brother Says very little about the brother And it says a lot about the siblings Okie dokie. Let's go to your questions Hi, my name is my hager. I live in casper wyoming And I was wondering looking at my generation and how discouraging it can be How much hope you feel like we can have towards the future Whoops one second. Let me see if I can do this one minute. I I did it after blowing it. I got it, right You don't know that they are dazzled all the guys working here on this video They're blown away Do you know what they're blown away by the fact that i'm impressed with myself for doing it? Maya mya I never heard of that. Did you you know a maya you have a maya in your life? There was a famous rap Singer named maya. Oh, yeah the rap singer. Of course. I can't believe I forgot Maya, thank you casper wyoming. Okay, so It's rare that I get a question That I can't really answer. Well I should be able but I'm I I I can't bluff things my generation the generation after my generation Uh have really screwed up a great country and are giving you only burdens that America may elect the party That will saddle you with the debt that you cannot pay That may lead to a to terrible economic suffering And an economic suffering leads always to political horrors Antisemitism was not the primary reason hitler got elected and the nazis got elected in the 1932 elections in germany It was the it was the economic state of germany Antisemitism was his primary concern. He he hated jews more than he loved germany He hated jews more than anything else in life That's not how he got elected He got elected on i'm gonna i'm gonna fix germany And he didn't even get a majority of the vote as it happens. These are important things to know but uh Economic catastrophe almost always leads to political catastrophe So I do worry for your generation that any member of your generation votes For those who will spend more and more money and give you Who's going to have to pay this debt after all or who's going to receive you? Whenever I speak at universities or not whenever but often when I speak at universities, I will open up my talk saying Thank you on behalf of my generation. I want to thank you for taking our debt And and yet that's the party that most young people vote for People don't vote on rational bases. People don't do most things on rational bases It's true. Uh all all over the spectrum That's why the title of my most important work in many ways my bible commentary is the rational bible Because I use reason to explain every verse and I I'm a big believer in reason You need reason and you need god god without reason leads to fanaticism And reason without god leads to men give birth to absurdities So you're being saddled with really bad stuff when I grew up kids loved america 90 percent of kids loved america Most most families had an american flag out on july 4th and and memorial day and so on We we were not told in first grade that there were 52 genders Boys were boys girls were girls The the staggering increase in the number of boys who say they're girls and especially girls who say they're boys Is a phenomenon of our time it is not a phenomenon of natural proclivities Of girls to say they're boys It's exceedingly rare But now it's far more common Okay, you're inheriting chaos I know i'm depressing you by the way. I I understand that But I don't want to depress you So you ask if there's hope of course, there's hope But there's only hope if you fight That that's that's the bottom line the There is a direct relationship between hope and fighting to make hope real and that that's your your Decision and that of your entire generation and of course my generation and younger generation generation between you and me If people fight there's hope if people don't fight there's no hope What do you fight for? That's where my and one another one of my books still the best hope comes into play where I explain the american value system The leftist value system and the islamic value system It's three books in one. It's called still the best hope America has a trinity just like christianity does it's on every coin. I didn't make it out e pluribus unum from any one liberty And in god we trust It's it's I think it's the finest plan to make a good society any society in the world I might add That has ever been devised Okay, prager united member question prager united members get a whole host of benefits One of them is you get the first question after the video question And you make it possible the best benefit you get in my opinion is that you know You've helped make the fireside chat and other prager you free content Possible so, please go to pragerunited.com And see what I mean And now he's snoring And now let's just take a moment and enjoy. Mr. Tubbs snoring I will admit my wife and I find his snoring at night so calming it's soothing it it is I don't need sleeping pills, but If I did he would serve it Okay, this is luminita l 38 in bucharest. Romania. So that's really nice a romanian member of prager united Which makes sense because there's nothing I say that is only relevant to americans nothing obviously, I use an american context, but Either either everything I say is relevant to people anywhere or it's not relevant to people anywhere It's got to be universally relevant Hi, dennis. Do you think god gave us life? If so, shouldn't he intervene from time to time? So that his plans for and with us happen And how can I know his will for me if I don't get an answer to my prayers? I am a christian struggling with knowing god and his will for me. Thank you Well, i'm a deep believer in god, which is why you asked the question it is not It's interesting it is not my Lingo, but I it has never been my religious rhetoric And I know many many people Have this And I and I respect it. I'm not trying to undo it, but I don't have it to the question of what is god's will for me I have always understood that god's will for me Was answered three thousand years ago or twenty eight hundred years ago by micah the prophet oh man Has god not told you all he wants from you? Only that you pursue justice love righteousness And walk humbly with your god So I don't when people say then What is god's plan for me? I don't understand and it you mean in addition to that Why isn't that sufficient? God wants me to lead a good life live by the ten commandments Get married make a family That's it's a pretty big agenda So I i've never quite understood what does it even mean god has a plan for me to My father was an accountant My father was an orthodox jew Deep believer in god not only prayed but literally spoke to god. He told me this every night And it went before he would go to sleep he used to use it deeply but Did he ever I don't think he once thought it was god's plan for me that I'd be an accountant It was god's plan for him that that he get married make a religious home raise good children Uh be faithful to his to his to his wife Uh be active in his community, which he did he was the president of of our synagogue for for years he he led a campaign for a member of the synagogue who was Rendered blind in a traffic accident in new york city where he grew up That's that's god's plan for all of us. I don't so I I think people One of the reasons you may be frustrated is because you're you're not asking a question that may have an answer I I have never Once asked what is god's plan for me dennis? god gave me his plans for me dennis and And the rest of humanity who want to take god seriously How I live that plan whether I I become uh a a A welder Or a bus driver or or an airplane pilot or a lawyer I don't know why that's god's plan and why you should think of it as god's plan So I I hope this isn't a dispiriting answer because it's not meant to be dispiriting. It's actually meant to sort of lighten your load You could spend your whole life asking. What is god's plan for me? And and maybe that's why you're not getting an answer. Maybe maybe if god could answer it say, you know Why do you think I gave a bible That's that if I were god, that's the answer I would give But I i'm not god But that's the closest that I could get Does that is that i'm gonna ask this gang? Does that make sense what I just said? Yeah, you spend your whole life thinking about what he wants from you. You're not going to do that, you know Yeah, okay. Well, that's a poss that's a possible danger So I hope um, I hope that helps Jeremy 24 Hiram, utah. Hey, dennis Hey, jeremy I'm, 24 years old and i'm a lifelong listener That's funny when you're 24 and you're a lifelong listener Yeah, I guess you could say that But you know listen if he started There are a lot of a lot of it in america at any rate Or i'm on the radio in many parts of the country Parents would put me on the car radio taking the kid to school. They'd be stuck with me when they were six So if you started 6 18 years is serious. Okay. Anyway, I love that lifelong listener your radio show But also i've listened to a great deal of dennis and julie that wonderful podcast You should all be aware of called dennis and julie. And of course the fireside chat I wanted to know your thoughts on something that has troubled me for most of my life How is a person supposed to be confident without being arrogant Confidence seems to be a good thing, but I despise arrogance Any of your thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, sir for your hard work and god bless Well, you're a thinker because uh, by the way Those would be my exact words And that is how did you put it? Confidence seems to be a good thing, but I despise arrogance So again I I use me because you know me and because I know me I know me better than I know anybody else So are you I know my so many Details of my own life like you you and everyone knows the tales of their lives. Here's an example It'll it. I hope it doesn't sound arrogant giving the example. That's the irony but I have worked in radio for 40 years and Radio depends upon salesmen In america all radio is private nearly all national public radio is not I don't I don't I don't think we need it, but that's a separate issue And the and that is the reason that so much radio does does not have the same values as the dominant media of the left new york times washington post national public radio A public broadcasting service and so on Because it's it's privately financed And how is it done by ads? so that unlike radio nearly all over the world Which is government-run radio There are no air which you have no ads because the government pays for it but but by the government pays for it means it It does what the government wants. It doesn't do what the people want Necessarily so salesmen Make this station Go if it weren't for people selling ads for my show, I would have no show So i've always appreciated what sales people do and on on a on maybe only maybe three occasions because I have i've only worked at two stations in in 40 years uh A A member of the sales staff would come in Let's say they they now knew me for only a year. They were a new person or something And they didn't know that others had said this but they would say, you know, I just want to tell you You're not a prima donna. That's the words that they would use Which if you know me, I mean it's a joke to think i'm a prima donna. I think it's it's actually a joke Prima donna is you know is arrogant self-importance star. I'm a star There there was never been And not a second of my life that I thought i'm a star It's it's like a joke to me the thought Uh, I don't even know what it feels like let alone feel it so But I obviously have confidence. So i'm living. I i'm hope i'm living what you're writing If I didn't have confidence I couldn't do this All right. I mean, oh I i'm not gonna sit in front of the camera for a half hour Just say what I think, you know Obviously, there's a level of confidence, but that's true for anyone who does anything competently I I I pray my airplane pilot has self-confidence I don't want to fly with a non-confident pilot right I'm, very happy if my surgeon thinks he's a good surgeon That's what I want That's what we all want. We want people to be confident in what they do obviously not to delude themselves, but to be Confident so that's a necessity in life to have some confidence arrogance arrogance and confidence I would even go so far as to say they're somewhat mutually exclusive If you really are confident and and appreciate that you have an ability Why would you be arrogant the arrogant probably lack confidence? So they have to Carry on as if they're the center of the universe So I they might be mutually exclusive arrogance and confidence That it's a theory. I'm not I don't know. It's absolutely correct. I do know this And it's it's it's in the torah the first five books of the bible Moses we attribute those books to moses writing And there is a verse which is mind-blowing and moses was the humblest man on earth Now that's now the traditional belief is moses wrote it How humble can you be if you're right? You're the humblest man on earth Theoretically, it's possible He he now my theory is god told him to write it It's the fact is it's there Humility Genuine that if you're genuinely humble, you can know you're genuinely humble. Why why wouldn't you? So, uh, it's a great question you pose and it's it's an important distinction. How's our timing? Do I have a built-in clock now there now that is not arrogance That I think I have a built-in clock Is a fact Anyway, I gotta say If you're gonna be arrogant about something that's not high on the list Sir, you think you're great. Absolutely. I have a built-in clock It doesn't generally work that way, but I really do it's obvious. That's amazing Well, it goes fast which by the way is a very good sign Because if I thought it went slowly You would think it went slowly and That would not be good so I hope all of this was Provocative of thought that's the key And that's why I frequently remind you It's worth watching periodically or listening to previous episodes of the fireside chat Because I think there's something important in all of them. I hope there is otherwise Um It's it's not worth doing it It has to be important to me or it has in my mind. It must be important or it shouldn't be done See you next week