Fireside Chat Ep. 157 — Addicted to Free
Fireside Chat with Dennis Prager | PragerU
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🗓️ 22 October 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, Dennis Prager and welcome to the Fireside Chat with Otto. I've never put a quite like that. |
| 0:07.2 | But Otto gets as much male as I do now. So it would just be wrong. Otto, all good. What do you say, |
| 0:14.0 | a little man? This is the guy. Otto is a source of great relaxation in the Prager home. His brother Snoopy, |
| 0:24.6 | not blood brother, but love brother is here as well. You don't happen to see him right now because |
| 0:31.7 | he's way up toward the camera, but he might get up at some point. We didn't even know if this would |
| 0:39.4 | work because Snoopy was actually in here and would not leave. But happily, one of the young, |
| 0:48.6 | many young people who visit the house is Snoopy as a big fan of his, so he got up. Anyway, |
| 0:54.8 | that's the background on the dog situation in the Prager home. Welcome to my home. |
| 1:01.6 | And what I do, I want to review this because I haven't mentioned this in a few weeks, that's all. |
| 1:08.0 | But I've almost said, I've said it almost all the time. This is my chance to just talk to you |
| 1:13.9 | spontaneously. There were no rehearsed lines. There was no teleprompter, nothing, just an ability |
| 1:24.0 | of given by this for me to talk to you from my heart, to your heart and my mind, to your mind. |
| 1:32.0 | I've been talking for so many weeks now, months now about social, political, and lockdown and virus |
| 1:42.1 | issues. I feel somehow I have a little reprieve this week to give you some thoughts on the larger |
| 1:51.5 | picture. And I'd like to talk to you about the sadness that I see with all the chaos in America at |
| 2:01.8 | this time. And all the demonstrations and all of the riots and all of the anger and it's completely |
| 2:16.6 | made up. I feel like I have entered a make-believe world as when I read the news, watch the news, |
| 2:26.7 | watch what is happening. Let me put it to you very bluntly. Putting the virus aside, and I |
| 2:34.4 | recognize that that's an issue, obviously, we were until the virus living in a golden age in America. |
| 2:45.3 | A true golden age. People got along generally great. The economy was spectacular, |
| 2:54.4 | better for everyone. We're preoccupied today with minorities. So just let me tell you, |
| 3:02.4 | minorities had the highest unemployment rate since records of employment have been kept in the |
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