Hi everybody, I'm Dennis Prager. This is Otto.

Otto needs no introduction. I might, but Otto doesn't. I'm well aware of that.

So this is fireside chat number 202. Notice I did not have to look at Megan and ask the number

because I remember when we did 200 and it'll be interesting to see how long I keep the count

correctly. You know it's amazing 202 which reminds me every so often I remind myself to remind you

they're really not dated even though sometimes my opening comments have been on something happening

at that time. These are really not dated. So if you binge on the fireside chat,

my opening comments and then and then responses to questions that you send in,

I think you'll benefit a great deal. There's a lot of important stuff said on any given fireside chat.

So this is my home. This is my library, man cave, office, whatever you want to call it.

Where I smoke my cigars and do a lot of my writing. And I welcome you to this fireside chat.

So I just returned a couple of weeks ago from Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic which is now

known as Czechia. I believe that is correct, Czechia. So before anything I want to say a word about

travel and I've had a love affair with travel all of my life. I have been to 131 countries.

I added one of this trips, Slovakia. I'll talk about that in a moment.

And last year because of lockdowns was the first year

since I was 20 that I did not go abroad. And I missed it terribly.

So for those of you who are hesitant about travel, forgetting COVID, in general,

hesitant about travel because of basically I think people are hesitant because of laziness.

Because it takes effort to travel. There's no question packing is effort,

travel is an effort, unpacking is an effort going to the next city is an effort. It's all an

effort. And like everything else in life, no pain, no gain. It's just the rule of life. It's one

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