Fireside Chat Ep. 151 — Society Can't Fix Your Problems

Fireside Chat with Dennis Prager | PragerU

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🗓️ 10 September 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Character development was a primary focus in education until the 1960s. Now, children are taught to blame America or "society" for their problems. The great tragedy of this, of course, is that if you think society is to blame, why would you take any action to help yourself? 0:00 “Say Hi To Otto!” 1:14 A Guy’s Guy 2:20 A Religious Education’s Impact 4:08 An Interruption 4:45 What Should Be Your Biggest Struggle? 7:52 Battling Human Nature 12:14 Raise Your Kids On More Than Love 14:50 America Will Never Be Perfect 16:30 Discussing BLM Without “Being Divisive” 21:53 Dating As A Conservative 24:44 Why Dennis Can Spell Albuquerque 26:48 The Communist Utopia Experiment 30:06 Addressing “The Global Black Family” 32:28 Thanks For Watching Subscribe so you never miss a new Fireside Chat! 👉 https://www.prageru.com/series/fireside-chats/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Did you know that Otto turned around just in time for the broadcast his Tush was on this side and
0:07.9	Then he heard me say oh no and turned around
0:12.1	It's hard to overstate
0:14.8	Otto's intelligence
0:16.8	I take that back. It's actually not hard to overstate Otto's intelligence, but that's not why I love him
0:24.6	You don't love your dog or cat for their brilliance for their intelligence
0:30.0	By the way some dogs are more intelligent than others obviously, but that's not what renders them lovable
0:36.1	truth is I don't even think
0:39.2	Brains
0:42.1	Are the most lovable part of a person character is
0:46.5	Goodness
0:47.6	Anyway, hi Dennis Prager. This is the fireside chat. Hey, this is Otto and everybody says hello
0:53.9	People stop me at the airport sometimes people stop me and just say hey say hi to Otto
0:59.4	So I go what I'm like chop liver as a joke
1:01.7	I get a big kick out of that to be honest if people go
1:05.4	Did you ever hear that phrase one of my chop liver?
1:08.7	That's a New York phrase, but have you heard it? Yes, I have and you're a California girl
1:13.9	Do you know who I'm talking to everybody do you know who Megan is?
1:17.1	We ought to introduce the staff behind here. You should meet Nathan very sexy guy Nathan. I was telling that right beforehand
1:24.9	And I'm John Machokin. I mean this guy's a guy's guy. Well, no, that's the wrong way of putting it
1:30.9	I take that back. He's a
1:33.6	Oh, hell it is live happy. It is recording it is spontaneous
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