Hi everybody and welcome to my home. I'm Dennis Prager and indeed this is my home. Do they have you caught a

Suspina in the shot here? We have three dogs. I told my wife when we married that more than two dogs is eccentric.

But we have the third because of a family tragedy. So I just want to explain how we ended up with three.

Now a lot of you don't think three is a lot but I do. Anyway they're lovable and that's the way it is. So welcome anyway.

Almost every week I do this with you and I got busy weeks but that's I consider this very important.

It's completely unscripted which is wonderful and dangerous because what if I say something that I wish I had said in a different way.

Then there's nothing I can do about it because this is going live as well as to be retrieved at other times.

But it's worth it and I tend not to fall into the trap of saying things that I that I don't mean.

By the way that reminds me is a very interesting story in that regard that should help a lot of you or some of you.

Or a few of you. When I first began broadcasting in my early 30s, 30s, something years ago.

I remember thinking there are things that I can't say on the air like I would get fired.

Find and or fired. Including any curse word.

Or expletive or whatever term you wish to use.

So I knew that I pretty rarely use those words. I am not an absolutist. I think you know an off-color joke or you're with a very close friend and you know you want to emphasize something or you're angry.

I don't I'm not an absolutist as I always say you know if a piano falls on your toe and all you say is gosh darn it.

You are quite controlled more so than I am.

But generally I'm not in favor of cursing certainly not publicly ever and even privately, minimally.

But I remember thinking the more I curse or use these words in private the more likely they are to come out on the radio.

And so I decided to be very very careful speaking privately in every way possible so that I don't mean politically correct.

I mean for example I tried not to exaggerate.

Exaggeration is a human tendency. You know oh my god you know I must have I don't know.

I must have bumped into 20 people I knew on the way to work today and it's more like three.

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