Hello everybody, I'm Dennis Prager, my home, my dog, my fireplace, and my

fireside chat. Otto's doing fine. Many of you inquire about that. Some in fact only

inquire about Otto, and I want you to know I'm not in any way hurt. On the

other hand, if you inquire only about me, Otto is a little hurt. So I just thought

a word to the wise is sufficient and that we can move on. So let me tell you

let me just reintroduce the fireside chats. It's completely spontaneous. I think

about what I'll talk about, but I don't write any notes. We don't pre-record. We

don't change it later. And that's it. It's just it's me to you. And then of course

you're questions. And then we go on with our lives. Hopefully though this will

change your life a little for the better. Otherwise it's not worth it. Let me

be very open about myself. Everything I have done is always been to touch and

change people's lives, values, and thinking. I have no interest in power. I only

have interest in influence. I think I have healthy, happy moral insights into

life. I think that people need them terribly, especially today, because those

things which together are known as wisdom are not conveyed in our schools and

in our media. So where do you look? I'm not the only one to look to thank God, but

that I am one whom I would want you to. And that's what animates me. Period. I never

understood the lust for power. I understand lust, but I don't understand lust

for power. I understand sexual lust. I understand food lust. I understand

cigar lust. I understand lust for money, though I don't have it. But I don't

understand lust for power. I just don't relate to it. The thrill of being able to

tell people what to do and ordering them. Hmm, gives me the creeps because I

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