I'm Dennis Prager, this is my home and hello as I remind you each week at what we call my fire side chat

It's a real fire side. It's a real chat

Everything about it is real. There's nothing scripted

just a chance to offer you some thoughts take your questions and

as it were enjoy each other and

I think

About the opening topic each week and by the way I do have to mention for those of you who've missed I guess the last eight or so

I have been forbidden to have my cigar

Which I had the first 40 or so chats

because

Facebook feels that it corrupts the youth

So we could not promote it on Facebook and

And I have offered my thoughts on that on how much less free a country we live in than when I was a kid

It's it's a very sad thing to me because it was a big part of the chat

It gave it a real informal sense and

Or a sense of the real and my

relaxation but it is what it is. I'm just noting it

Given the Thanksgiving period that we're in I thought I would talk to you about what could arguably be my favorite subject

Let's put it this way. I don't have a more favorite subject. There may be subjects tied for first place

this might be

This would certainly be one of them and that is gratitude

Gratitude is so important that I am about to offer you a thought that

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