Hello everybody, I'm Dennis Prigger. This is my home, my fire, and my dog.

That's pretty much it. My home, my fire, and my dog. It's the fire side chat. I have this with you

every week. It's a chance to have as literally 100% unscripted. There's no, what do you call

teleprompter? I'm not reading from anything. I am just as it were sharing thoughts about life with

you. So thanks for watching and thank you for all the love letters to Otto. There are now people

who stop me at the airport and just go say hi to Otto or give Otto a rub. I feel like Otto's

companion or I work for Otto. It's just fine with me. That's not an issue. Anyway,

I, the thing that I do, I give some thought to right before I do this each week is, well, when I open

up with regard to, well, I talk about in the beginning. So some things trigger it, some things

are things I've been thinking about and just want to share with you, but this one is what I just read.

36% of millennials approve of communism. That was the headline on the market watch.

Some poll was taken. So over a third of millennials, it's something I need to address because the

issue is, that's bad enough, but the issue is larger than that. How is that possible? That's the

question to be asked. In light of that, again, I want to always mention related, pre-Ger-U videos.

I did a video titled Why isn't communism as hated as Nazism? And of course, they're all five

minutes and I strongly recommend that to you. My field of study, I'm not sure I've ever mentioned

this, I might have. My field of study was a fairly rare arena to specialize in. My field was

communist affairs. That's what it was called, communist affairs. It was the heyday of the Cold War.

I did that at the School of International Affairs at Columbia University.

And I was at what's called the Russian Institute. They had an East Asian Institute,

an African Institute, Middle East Institute, a Russian Institute, probably something else.

I was at both the Russian and Middle East Institutes because I did Arabic and Russian.

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