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🗓️ 25 April 2025
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Originally aired August 23, 2019.
Can you be happy even in the face of terrible tragedy? Dennis talks to Dina Hurwitz whose husband suffers from ALS.
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0:00.0 | This is Sean McConnell, better known as the Gentle Gentile Giant on the Dennis Prager show. |
0:05.1 | We have all missed Dennis these many months after his tragic accident. |
0:08.6 | We've pulled out some great older shows from Dennis in the archives and have one ready for you now. |
0:13.4 | Hope you enjoy hearing a blast from the past and you're ready for Dennis to return to the radio with a live show on June 3rd here on the Salem Radio Network. |
0:21.7 | And now, more of Dennis Prater. |
0:29.4 | Ladies and gentlemen, guess what it is? |
0:35.0 | It's the happy, happy, happy, happy hour. Yes, it is. Ladies and happy happy happy happy hour yes it is ladies and gentlemen boys and |
0:41.3 | girls and Sean you took that as an insult a and I it is it was mad nicely. |
0:57.4 | Yes, it was. |
1:00.0 | It really was friendly. |
1:01.7 | Those are the original lyrics. |
1:04.4 | It's the happy, happy, happy, happy. |
1:05.4 | Ladies and gentlemen, |
1:14.5 | the second hour on Friday since 1999, since the 20th century, which was only the century after the Civil War, |
1:22.0 | which itself was only a century after the founding of the United States. That is how old the happiness hour is. Since 1999, every single Friday, including the Friday of 9-11 because I thought well people will think it's not respectful after the slaughter of 3,000 Americans to have a happiness hour and then I thought that is exactly the challenge if I can't have a happiness hour after tragedy, then what's the use of the happiness |
1:47.1 | hour? |
1:49.3 | So we've never, we've never not had it. |
1:52.3 | If I'm on on a Friday, there's a happiness hour. |
1:57.3 | Very rarely, oh, let me just give my usual opening. |
2:01.6 | The happy make the world better, the unhappy make it worse. |
2:04.6 | Happiness is a virtue. |
2:07.5 | The pursuit of happiness is a noble pursuit. |
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