Hi everybody, I'm Dennis Prager, this is Dennis Prager's house, Dennis Prager's fireplace,

and Dennis Prager's ideas. This is the weekly fireside chat. This is very important to me. I

travel a tremendous amount and I still try to make the time to do this. And we almost don't miss a

week. Maybe when I do my annual cruise with listeners, I think it's the only time it's almost

impossible. Though I have to figure out maybe a fireside chat from Germany. That would be

fun. Maybe we could think about that in advance. Anyway, virtually every week, my home to yours,

it's all spontaneous, nothing scripted, it's a real good chance to at least for you to get to know

me better and what I stand for and ultimately what Prager University stands for. But most important,

it's an opportunity to just talk about life. And I am happy if you're 98 and you're watching,

I'm happy and if you're 18 and you're eight, I'm happy. Having said that, there's a very large

number of you who are quite young and that is very important to me, not because you are more valuable

than someone who's 98. But because you are the future, it's not a cliche, it's just a fact.

So I have never been a youth worshiper, even when I was a kid. I remember I was about 21 years old

when they made the vote, they changed the vote from 21 to 18. And I remember saying to my

girlfriend at the time, I don't know why they're giving us the vote. And I don't know why I said it

because when I look at the date, I wasn't 18, I was 21. But be that as it may, I remember

something saying, why are they giving me the vote? I don't know anything. In other words, I knew

or let's put it this way. I truly believed adults were wiser than I was. Which by the way is a very

good thing for young people to think because if you're 17 and you think you're a wiser than adults,

if you're right, you're in really big trouble. Okay? Let me put it to you that way. Let's hope,

in fact, the wiser you are at 17, the more you realize, a lot of adults are a wiser. By the way,

a lot of adults are not wiser. This is one of the worst realizations you make when you get older.

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