Hi everybody, Dennis Prager with Otto. I cannot guarantee Otto will be here the entire fireside chat however.

He's very feisty today and as you see his position is not the normal

comatose one so there's no predicting. In fact, Snoopy, his beloved brother was in the bed

until just a few minutes ago.

Fireside chat number 201. I know that because I know the last one was 200.

And by the way it's periodically it's worth my mentioning to you that if you want to binge on fireside chats you could

you could use your time in a worse way. It's not a bad way to spend a lot of time. I

if I may put it this way I pour my heart out and my my mind out to you every fireside chat.

It's a half hour of very intense hopefully very interesting and even sometimes funny moments.

But it is it is important stuff that I address. So that was true in number one and hopefully it will be true in number 201.

By the way another by the way

you get a lot done in life by habit. So this is the 201 first fireside chat.

And the reason that I've been able to accomplish this much with the fireside chat is that I do it every week.

It's a habit. It's an amazing thing what you can do with a habit.

Instead of a massive amount in one time a little regularly gets you very far in life.

So I asked Megan the owner of America's famous arm what she thought would be a good

topic to open up with because everything here is spontaneous on the fireside chat. She said

Afghanistan. The truth is I have a tremendous amount to say about Afghanistan. I won't say it all.

About four months ago I wrote my column. I write a column every Tuesday.

You could see it on my website and at many other websites on the internet.

And I wrote against leaving Afghanistan. And I fully know and acknowledge that I am not in the

majority even among conservatives. Let alone among people on the left. And I completely differ with

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