Hi everybody, welcome to my home. I'm Dennis Prager. This is the fireside chat. There's the fireside. Here's the chat.

This is completely

spontaneous, completely unrehearsed, completely unscripted. Sometimes it probably sounds that way. I admit it,

but it's in apparently to my great delight. I have to tell you is cheap some popularity.

I have a pretty large viewership and I think it's because it's very real. I love real and

that's what this is about. And those of you who've ever heard me on radio or seen any of the Prager U videos or my videos,

this is a chance to really interact more because I take your questions and

it's different than standing in front of a mic and

giving a lecture and those are important. It's one's not better than the other. It's just a matter of different.

So here I am and I want to talk to you about a

subject

that

if you take seriously could change your life.

So we're in the the period of New Year's and Christmas and it's it's what is this? It's the

it's the it's the time to be jolly. What is it called? It's a time. What is the words on the song?

It's it's you know one of the one of the many Christmas songs. It's the it's the best time of the year. Yeah, that's a good example. Best time of the year, right?

So a lot of people are unhappy and by the way, this applies to Thanksgiving, this applies to birthdays, this applies to any holiday that you have in whatever religion you are.

This is not this is not

Christmas specific. It's not New Year's specific.

It's specific to an idea. The idea being

that and here's the key.

People think

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