My final puff before the beginning. God, I love it. I have to admit. Hey, it's great to be with you. I'm Dennis Pringer. Welcome to my home. My fireplace. My fire.

My cigar.

I'm going to very weird move today and this is not good because I'm always a little I often get near the edge, but I never fall off that God.

Nevertheless, welcome. I said my name. Is that right everybody? Yes. Okay. I won't say it again. This is my home. This is completely unrehearsed. It is a way to just get to know one another better than especially obviously. I'm not going to make believe you know me better because you get to see me for this approximately 30 minutes each week.

And it's very meaningful to me. This is why I do it because we got a chance to talk about everything. And as I said, it's not scripted. I really give thought to what I would open with the subject. Then I take your questions.

So I was so torn on the opening subject that I actually had the four folks from Prager you who are here. Vote on it. And the vote was two in favor of one topic and the other two were neutral.

And since I had them vote, I wasn't going to have them vote and then say, I don't care about your vote. So I'll follow. I'll follow the.

Let me just explain by the way why I'm even someone torn on subject matter. I like to do subjects that are what I call evergreen that if you hear this five years from now, it'll be just as relevant.

On the other hand, something strike me that are in the news that I just feel I need to address.

But if you see this five years from now, it'll still be worth your while to see it because the specifics are specific to today.

But the comments that I will offer are relevant will be relevant five years from now. And that is the is either most famous basketball player right now, LeBron James.

I would think so. So he's the most famous one of the greatest to ever played some say the greatest to ever played, but every generation says somebody is, you know, years ago, they said Michael Jordan was for that.

I don't know that anybody say will chamber little was. I don't know. But anyway, there was always a great, but he is great.

He's a great basketball player. There's no question. And he's gone from Cleveland to Los Angeles. The Lakers are paying him hundreds of millions of dollars to play, which we're trying to bring.

I have to admit, he said something that is so untrue, that is so awfully untrue, that I lost all interest in watching him play and I live here in Los Angeles.

That's a pretty big statement for me to make because I don't expect any athlete, a professional athlete to come out with pearls of wisdom. It's not what they're paid to do. I don't hold that against them.

But this before I say what he said that is so awful, because it's such a lie. And I hate using the L word, because that's about as bad as you can accuse somebody of doing. By the way, here's the killer. He doesn't even know it's a lie.

I'm not even speaking to his character. I'm just speaking about what he said is a lie. He truly believes what he said, which is actually more frightening on a explain why in a moment.

But the I just want to say something about Hollywood stars and athletes who speak out on politics, 99% of the time, of course, on the left.

Just don't. You don't come across as terribly bright. You don't come across as terribly wise. And you don't do yourselves a favor.

It's it's born of arrogance. You think that because you're famous.

You therefore are significant or excuse me, we're all significant as human beings, but you think that your thoughts are significant.

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