Hi everybody, I'm Dennis Prager and most of you know that otherwise you wouldn't be watching

But nevertheless it seems odd to just start talking I'm not saying who I am. This is my house my dog my fireplace

This is the fireside chat. It's a real chance. How you doing auto all good?

He was nose down. Auto is definitely looking alive today

Yeah, all right. Yeah, the man auto

All right, so this is a chance for me to talk to you every week and let me tell you something

We're very serious about every week. We haven't missed a week in years now

I think that's that's fair to say and you know, they're a lot going on in society

You would you'd think we might miss and I travel a lot, but this is very important to me

It's important to me because I get feedback from you that it's important to you

It's completely nonscripted. I am not reading from anything

It's a by the way that's a risk because you know, you could say something that you wish you didn't say later

It hasn't happened yet, but it could happen

Let's put it that way in any event welcome to the fireside chat where I get a chance to think about life with you and take your questions

so I'm gonna open up with

An approach to what is happening

In many countries of the world as I speak to you were there in an effect shutting down

People can't leave their country or go into another country

They they you can't go to a store you can't gather with more than a few people

I mean this is unprecedented in my lifetime in in free societies

These are things that you would have expected from a totalitarian state and authoritarian state

But it's actually happening in free countries which is in itself understandable, but a little worrying

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