Sunday Fireside Chat: Save Your Dog or a Stranger?
Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager
Salem Podcast Network
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Fireside Chat Ep. 78 - Save Your Dog or Save a Stranger originally aired on April 18th, 2019
During this week’s Fireside Chat, Dennis revisits the question: Would you save your dog or a stranger first if both were drowning? Dennis reads viewers’ reactions and comments from when this question was posed in the past. The responses show what happens when your morals are guided by your feelings rather than a religious moral code.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, this is Marissa Strite. I am the CEO of Prager You, and you are about to listen to a special edition of fireside chat with Dennis Prager. |
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| 0:44.9 | Hi, everybody. I'm Dennis Prager, and welcome to my fireside chat. It's my home. It's my chair. |
| 0:51.4 | It's my fire. It's my dog. Is dog. Is Otto in there? I'm telling you, |
| 0:56.7 | you know what the beautiful thing is? Otto's fame has not gone to his head. He's one of the |
| 1:03.6 | best known dogs in the world right now. And nothing. It's like it has not affected him |
| 1:10.8 | whatsoever. |
| 1:12.5 | You got to say this is a remarkable creature, |
| 1:15.7 | which will be perfect in light of the subject I want to talk to you about. |
| 1:19.7 | And by the way, world is pretty accurate, |
| 1:23.0 | because I just want to note that recent fireside viewers' comments came from Bulgaria, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Australia, the Czech Republic, Luxembourg, Scotland, |
| 1:35.6 | and we'll have questions from other countries entirely as well. |
| 1:39.8 | So that's – oh, I should read. That's right. I've got to read this. |
| 1:42.1 | So that's a – it's a good thing |
| 1:44.6 | because what I have to say is not bound to any ethnic or religious or national group |
| 1:53.9 | I've always said either what you have to say is universally applicable or it's not |
| 1:59.6 | applicable to anybody that's my belief it's not applicable to anybody. |
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