Hi everybody, I'm Dennis Prager and welcome to this week's Fireside Chat.

And we open up as usual with some stirring classical music.

What happened?

There was stirring, but the orchestra did not listen to me.

And by the way, talking about orchestra is listening to me.

I will be conducting at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles on August 16th.

So put it on your calendar if you are even contemplating being in or coming to Southern California at the time.

It will be an extraordinary evening.

Anyway, great to be with you.

And of course, the dominant issue right now is that President Trump has taken the U.S. out of the Paris climate change accords.

And the hysteria is reaching proportions that I have not seen in my life.

There is more hysteria about this than there was after 9-11.

It is, then there was sadness and preoccupation, but not hysteria.

That's what we have here.

And it has been ever since Al Gore made this into an issue.

And the left has taken it all over the world.

This is their big crusade to save the planet.

I tweeted out something a couple of months ago.

I think it was one along these lines.

A religious person who says the end of the world is near is considered a nut, a religious nut.

A secular person is called a religious nut.

A secular person who says the end of the world is near is called an environmentalist.

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