Firside Chat Ep. 101 – Your Life Depends on Fossil Fuels
Fireside Chat with Dennis Prager | PragerU
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🗓️ 27 September 2019
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, Dennis Prager from my home to yours. Hello, Otto. Of course, next to me, |
| 0:05.4 | you're the man. You are the man. Do you know that Otto takes his position now as soon as Rodrigo |
| 0:11.8 | and Megan show up, the folks who put most of these together? It's very sweet actually. And as I've |
| 0:18.4 | said to you often, he is not getting conceded being as famous as he is, which is a very healthy thing. |
| 0:25.2 | We've raised him well. I take a little credit for that. So this is the hundred first episode, |
| 0:32.6 | in honor of that. Hi. I'll talk to you about this for a moment. I want people to think clearly on |
| 0:45.2 | things, the way I think, and I have since I was in high school, I always think about good and evil. |
| 0:53.3 | I admit it, my as soon as I think about something, does it promote good? Does it promote bad? |
| 1:00.1 | Some things, of course, have no moral quality. I fully understand. If you prefer yellow to blue, |
| 1:06.0 | that's not a moral question. I don't apply those standards to anything, but I'll give you an example. |
| 1:15.2 | I don't I know that cigarettes are dangerous. I fully acknowledge that. Cigars are far less |
| 1:20.4 | dangerous because they're not inhaled. If you inhale the cigar like you do with cigarette, |
| 1:24.3 | you would be hurting yourself. I fully appreciate that. And most people don't know the difference. |
| 1:31.1 | They think they're the same thing that this is brown and that's white. There are huge differences. |
| 1:36.0 | One is done for taste and one is done for the nicotine in the cigarette, which is why I think |
| 1:42.3 | e cigarettes are I don't think I know have helped very many people get off cigarettes with all the |
| 1:49.6 | junk that's in them and all the carcinogens. And in many parts of the Western world, |
| 1:55.8 | e cigarettes are encouraged by medical authorities like in Britain because it does take people away |
| 2:02.1 | from cigarettes, which is a wonderful thing. Having said that, I have always believed that |
| 2:11.6 | I have two sons. I and I said before I had children because I was on the radio before I had kids. |
| 2:18.4 | And of course, now that they're grown, been on the radio for all of their lives. |
| 2:24.8 | And I said, if I had a kid and then I did, I would prefer that my kid smoke cigarettes than |
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