Fear Is a Serious Problem - Sunday Fireside Chat
Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager
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🗓️ 10 May 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Fireside Chat Ep. 58 - Fear Is a Serious Problem aired on November 18th, 2021
Don’t Raise Fearful Children, in which Dennis answers why some people are gripped with fear and others are not. In this episode, Dennis addresses these questions: How do we become less fearful? What is the difference between a courageous person and a non-courageous person? And how is fear used for evil?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, this is Marissa Strite. I am the CEO of Prager You, and you are about to listen to a special edition of fireside chat with Dennis Prager. |
| 0:08.7 | Those of us here at Prager You are continuing to do the very important work that we've been doing with him for over 10 years. |
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| 0:39.0 | values. So enjoy your podcast and thank you so much for all your support. Hi everybody, Dennis Pringer here |
| 0:46.6 | with Otto. What's Otto doing? Licking the air. He's licking the air. That's exactly what he's doing. He's a very funny dog. There's |
| 1:03.4 | no question about it. Bulldogs are a crack-up. Everybody who owns one. Are you allowed to say that, |
| 1:10.2 | by the way, owns a dog? I think, no, |
| 1:12.9 | no, according to the animal rights organizations, you cannot say you are your pet's owner. You are |
| 1:18.8 | your pets human companion. I just wanted you to know that. So he doesn't care, by the way. |
| 1:28.4 | He's very happily owned. |
| 1:30.7 | So hi, everybody. |
| 1:31.8 | These are spontaneous, all of them. |
| 1:35.7 | I take your questions after I open up with a few comments. |
| 1:39.1 | I'm going to be very brief on the opening comments because two episodes ago, not episode, two, yeah, episode, two episodes ago, |
| 1:49.5 | two 11, I spoke about fear. I have another thought about fear. I just wanted to share. And it |
| 1:59.9 | actually arose since then. It's not a thought I didn't mention |
| 2:06.3 | then. It's a thought I hadn't thought of then. It hit me because I'm been thinking about fear so |
| 2:11.8 | much. That fear is arguably the strongest emotion humans have. |
| 2:20.5 | I used to think it was either love or hate, and now I believe fear. |
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