What’s My Line?
Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager
Salem Podcast Network
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2023
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
On Labor Day, Dennis asks people what they do for a living. Callers include a baker, a fitness pro, a laptop part company entrepreneur, a nutritional consultant, and antique Judaica dealer, a perfusionist, the guy who sells coupons on the back of you receipts, a personalized wine box maker, a retirement planner, a computer access controller, a homeschooler, a motorcycle critic, a dog daycare owner, a cabinet maker, a maintenance worker, a union organizer, a power grid engineer, a writer/illustrator of children’s books, a motion picture/television art director, a technical specialist for the disabled, and a woman who makes teeth. Originally broadcast September 3, 2012.
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| 0:00.0 | There are people in this country to work hard every day. |
| 0:13.0 | Not for fame or fortune do they strive. |
| 0:18.0 | But the fruits of their labor are worth more than their pay. |
| 0:25.3 | Portions of the following program may contain pre-recorded material. |
| 0:28.2 | You are listening to the best of the Dennis Prager show. |
| 0:30.9 | Hello, Detroit Auto Worker. |
| 0:34.2 | Let me thank you for your time. |
| 0:36.6 | Hello, my friends. It's Labor Day, and I'm laboring. |
| 0:42.4 | Dennis Prager here, and my tradition on Labor Day is to ask you about your labor, your work. |
| 0:57.0 | What do you do for a living? |
| 1:02.0 | And I have been just fascinated by your ways of making a living. |
| 1:14.6 | We don't realize, none of us realize, because we all live in a small world. |
| 1:19.9 | It's impossible not to. |
| 1:22.7 | You know X number of people, you have X number of relatives, |
| 1:25.9 | and that's pretty much it. |
| 1:27.8 | Now, we don't live in a small world intellectually or philosophically and the like, but we do in terms by definition. |
| 1:35.8 | How many people can we possibly know personally? |
| 1:40.0 | And so it comes as a fascinating surprise, and it's quintessentially American, |
| 1:48.1 | the ways in which Americans make a buck. |
| 1:54.1 | So what I do on Labor Day is I invite you to call in and tell me what you do, |
| 2:00.4 | and it could be absolutely prosaic it you know |
| 2:03.4 | it doesn't mean you you you drill for oil in tunisia it doesn't have to be exotic if you are in a |
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