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The Ann & Phelim Scoop

What is Dennis Prager's Thanksgiving Obsession?

The Ann & Phelim Scoop

The Unreported Story Society

Society & Culture

4.7 • 556 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Happy Thanksgiving everyone,This week we look back on an episode we did with someone who embodies the spirit of Thanksgiving, our good friend Dennis Prager. Recorded before he suffered a devastating injury Denis said: “Thanksfulness…it's sort of a lifelong obsession of mine, gratitude is the mother of goodness and happiness, that's how powerful it is. You can't be happy if you're not grateful and you can't be good if you're not grateful, that's a big deal, that's why I love Thanksgiving”As you probably know a year ago Dennis suffered a devastating spinal cord injury, and is now a quadriplegic. But is he depressed and morose? No! He’s grateful to be alive. He said so in a recent interview.He is grateful for his family,his mind and his life. Dennis is an amazing human being.We met Dennis shortly after coming to Los Angeles and we’ve been good friends ever since. Please enjoy our interview with him.Our conversation with Dennis is entertaining, you will laugh out loud and you will learn so much about life, especially about gratitude. Dennis believes you can’t be happy without being grateful. He should know since he literally wrote the book on it, called Happiness is a Serious Problem, which we highly recommend reading (you can buy it at the link below). And please let us know in the comments what you’re grateful for this Thanksgiving, especially if we’re on your list!We also want you to know that we have a huge OCTOBER 7 play announcement coming up! It's big, big news about the play going to be in a prominent, internationally significant venue. This is important because it seems that it has never been more important to tell the truth about Israel and Oct 7.Speaking of our special projects. We are especially grateful to all of our supporters and donors, who make our plays, movies, and podcasts possible. If you would like to see more of our projects like OCTOBER 7 continue its run or see new ones please go to UnreportedStorySociety.com(linked below) and give what you can. We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit so all of your donations will be tax deductible. And if you want to see OCTOBER 7 the play come to a location near you please donate at October7theplay.com (linked below). And if you are still waiting for the turkey to bake (because you didn’t follow our advice about deep-fat frying, it’s ok we all make mistakes) and you’ve run out of Scoop episodes. Consider subscribing to our Stories.io Substack(linked below) where we publish news and views beyond our weekly show. To donate click here:https://unreportedstorysociety.com To subscribe to our substack click here:https://phelimmcaleer.substack.com/To help us continue to tour OCTOBER 7 the play, please go here:http://October7thePlay.com You can find “Happiness is a Serious Problem” on Amazon.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Would I wish I could move my limbs?

0:03.4

I dream about moving my limbs almost every night.

0:08.3

Of course I would love it.

0:11.6

But I'm alive and I have my loved ones.

0:15.6

And I have the public.

0:19.1

And I think I could still make a difference.

0:23.3

Would I rather be dead?

0:27.3

It's inconceivable.

0:31.9

Just I love life.

0:39.1

Hello, welcome to the island Phelham Scoop.

0:41.1

I'm Anne McElheny.

0:41.9

And I'm Phelan.

0:43.6

Happy Thanksgiving.

0:44.9

Happy Thanksgiving, yes, yes.

0:46.6

You'll probably be watching this the day before Thanksgiving or on Thanksgiving or just after Thanksgiving.

0:51.3

And we decided to do something very special for Thanksgiving this year.

0:54.2

Yes.

0:54.9

One of the first, one of the very earliest episodes of our podcast,

0:59.3

we had the honor of sitting down with Dennis Prager at Dennis Prager's home

1:03.5

and having a Thanksgiving episode.

1:06.2

And obviously we're shouting out all kinds of love and everything good that could possibly come

1:14.5

Dennis's way. Please God, he will be back with us very soon. But we had this amazing episode.

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