Hi everybody, Dennis Prager here for FireSide Chat number 253. 254. 254. By the way, it kills me that one was missed.

In five years, including two years of COVID lockdown, et cetera, it was a source of great pride to me that we would never miss one.

People came in in the beginning in the most intense period of lockdown. We all gathered in this room. Nobody gave a hoot.

We missed one because I had COVID and I just, I guess I felt odd about people coming in if they felt uncomfortable.

But I was fine enough to do even with COVID. I had two COVIDs and I didn't miss one. Anyway, it's 253. Great to be with you. This is Otto. I have no idea if Otto is going to stay the entire podcast.

It's the FireSide Chat. It's great to be with you. The uniqueness of the FireSide Chat. Well, a uniqueness.

There are many reasons I think it's unique. But one is it's just so spontaneous. It's just a way to communicate with you, take your questions from folks all over the world.

And did I say my name because I'm supposed to every time? Did I say I'm Dennis Prager? I am Dennis Prager. This is Otto.

I want to talk to you about fear. I'm going to take your questions. It's such a big issue. So huge.

It's almost one can say if not the one of the one or two or three most animating impulses in human life. Love, anger, hate, loyalty, religion, fear is up there.

And the reason that I'm raising it today is that I had on my radio show. For those of you who don't know, I have a national radio show. You could listen, slash, watch it anywhere in the world. Very easy. Go to Dennis Prager.com.

I'm going to listen to the show. And I had a guest. A man I have great, great admiration for. He is a psychiatrist in Los Angeles. Mark McDonald.

Oh, I got scared that he was getting up already. If he stays 15 minutes, I could live with it for the first three minutes.

Mark McDonald is a psychiatrist. So to be a psychiatrist, in case you don't know, you have to be an MD medical doctor. Psychologists are not medical doctors. Psychiatrists are.

And he wrote a book just now. Freedom from fear. Correct.

And it's an important little book. It's a 12 step program to stop your addiction, as he calls it, like people are addicted to drugs. They're addicted to fear.

He has a very interesting thesis on that, which I hope I will remember to come back to.

So we discussed fear. And this, this psychiatrist did an interesting thing. He declared himself a dissenter on COVID and on therapeutics from the rest of much of the medical community.

And he's got a lot of therapeutics, meaning things like hydroxychloroquine with zinc and Ivermectin.

And he's gotten threats that he'll lose his license, which is unbelievable. A doctor cannot recommend one of the safest drugs we have.

Maybe he's wrong, but maybe he's right. Isn't a doctor allowed to prescribe for a patient what he or she thinks will help the patient.

So he came out of the club. Well, I don't think it was ever in the closet, but he he announced who he was.

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