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I have gone on a listener cruise in four years because of lockdowns. I would have gone the very

first year. But there was no such thing as a first of all there was no such thing as a cruise

secondly there was no such thing as an unmasked cruise. I was not prepared to wear one

nor have my fellow travelers wear one. So this was the first in four years after about 25 years

consecutively of cruises with listeners. I'm Dennis Prager wonderful to be back.

It's a exactly two weeks I was I last broadcast Wednesday and I last broadcast on a Tuesday. No

on a Wednesday. Yeah Wednesday that's correct. I make it that way exactly that way went to Poland

and then flew to Budapest picked up the ship the entire ship on the Danube River were Dennis

Prager listeners. So you can only imagine the joy at any table you sat there was a kindred spirit.

It is not possible to overstate the the joy that people have and how often they expressed it

there were enduring friendships made on these trips as indeed on the Israel trip that I take

with a greater number of people every other year and will this year.

It is so re invigorating to be with people who share your values and so it's a real gift that I

feel that I give to people who take these trips. I am sort of not an expert but I have a great

deal of knowledge of modern Eastern Europe because my field of study was communism and I spent a

lot of time in communist Eastern Europe in addition to the Soviet Union in my twenties

and I've gone back a number of times if you want hope for the Western world ironically you

probably should go to Eastern Europe rather than Western Europe. I wrote a column

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