Hi everybody, Dennis Prager here, coaxing auto to stay at least for the very first moments.

We've just been bribing him with some food. Oh, he hasn't moved.

Thank you, auto. Hi everybody, once again, fireside chat.

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So some thoughts at the end of the year, people take New Year's resolutions.

I think New Year's resolutions are important, even if you break them and most people do break them.

The only question is when Megan's cracking, everybody's cracking up.

Why? Because of his sound effects.

Okay, and now we'll ask him to leave, I guess, because I have thoughts I really do want to share with people.

All right, bye bye, auto. Take, take a, take a, and it's a new Google boy. Okay.

And this is not been, this has not been a helpful exercise. I have to say, it's probably cracking you

who are watching up because of the delay in the actual chat part of the fireside chat. All right,

we're good. So why do I think even if you break them, it's important. First of all, it means that

you know that in some ways you could do better. That's the beginning of becoming a better human being

is to know you can and ought to be better. So that's, that's a big factor. Secondly, you have isolated

certain things to do, whatever it might be, whether it's exercise or reading or travel, I don't know

what people make all sorts of resolutions. So I think they're valuable. The idea that, well,

you'll break it anyway, why make them is not a tenable argument in my opinion for reasons I just

offered. Anyway, I want to, want to offer you a thought that I could obviously spend hours on

and have on things that any one of us can do to make ourselves better through some resolution.

But I want to offer one overriding thought and then maybe I'll, depending on the time factor

before I take your questions, I'll, I'll give you some other thoughts. So a lot of people say it

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