Hi everybody, I'm Dennis Prager. This is Dennis Prager's home

Dennis Prager's dog Dennis Prager's fireplace. It's the fireplace. No, it isn't. It's the fireside the fireside chat each week

completely nonscripted

Completely spontaneous, which is a gamble because a lot of people see this and obviously if you don't read from a script

You could say something that can then be misinterpreted or you can even regret saying

But I feel that the gamble is worth it for the spontaneity and realness of it all

So here we are at the fireside chat welcome. I want to remind you that it's worth seeing previous fireside chats because

most of them

The great majority are not dated in any way and even the dated ones they talk about themes that transcend that date

So there are a lot of important things on the fireside chats and the questions

That are posed as well. So I just invite you to look at the the backlog

What number are we up to 130 something?

134

You know it's funny because the very beginning when we started this I thought I'll give it a try do a couple and see how it goes and

Here we are at 134

So I want to show you the front page of the Los Angeles Times

I printed it out. I don't the actual front page. I

Foolishly threw away

Because I I take the articles I want I put them into a word on my computer so I can edit

What I want to read on my radio show anyway, I threw it away, but here is a picture of it anyway

Of you see the the front page and the big article in the middle is

Extreme poverty may be pandemics heaviest toll

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