Hi everybody, I'm Dennis Prager. Welcome to my home and as I reassure you every week

this is my home. There is no script, there is no pre-shooting syllabus, nothing.

I just get a chance to talk to you about what's on my mind and take your

questions, things that are on your mind. So welcome to my home and here we go.

I've been thinking about something, I think about this every year. Every year that

I have been alive and I have been aware of issues people raise. I guess I

didn't, I wasn't aware of this when I was seven, but pretty much all of my life.

I have read and I have heard the usual about consumerism and Christmas that

people have made a religious holiday into a capitalist holiday. It's great

for businesses, but it ruins the spirit of the holiday. It's just a bunch of

quote unquote consumerism. People are spending all this money on gifts and the

critique has been the same my whole life. I never for four minutes. No, I never

for one minute thought it was persuasive. There is something wrong. I have to

say this. I don't mean to insult anybody, but I acknowledge it's an insult.

All right. I don't mean it to be an insult, but it is an insult. There is

something wrong with you. If you think there is something wrong in buying people

gifts, he drives me crazy. Do you understand what people are protesting? People

are buying too many presents for other people. That is disgusting. The kind of

brain comes up with that and I have an answer. The well educated brain. You have to

go to college to think of something that's stupid. And I mean it literally. You

would never have thought that in high school. You have to be taught something like

that. People are going out and thinking, gee, what would aunt Jenny like? That's

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