Hi everybody, I'm Dennis Prager and welcome to my home. It really is my home.

Everything about this is unrehearsed, spontaneous, fun and serious and

serious and fun. It depends on the order you prefer. The old fire place is

working away. It is great to be with you almost every week. We put out one of

these fireside chats. I'm very proud to say, but proud isn't really that I take

that back. I'm very happy to say and I'll explain the difference. That we have

now a million views per week. And the reason I'm happy and not the the

pride part was it was it was an honest mistake because that's not how I think.

I think about and I have since I was a kid, how can I influence people in good

ways. That's all I ever wanted to do with my life. It's right in run for office.

Although I thought of running for office many times and that is I'm completely

uninterested in having power. My whole philosophy of life is that we shouldn't

have power over other people anyway. I love the founders who thought the

founders of the United States believe in limited government. They didn't like

power either. They don't trust power. I've wanted to be influential but not

powerful. That's that's and a lot of people who run for office not all want to be

powerful. They love it. It's sort of it's it's like an adrenaline rush to have

this power over other people. It it it it does nothing for me to be honest. So if

this is getting more and more influential, that's my dream because there's a lot

that is not taught and it's called wisdom. The universities in the high schools

and the elementary schools no longer teach wisdom. I want to talk to you today

about a wisdom issue if you will and my outlook on what has happened to much of

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