Fireside Chat with Dennis Prager | PragerU

Is adulthood defined by age? Not really. As soon as you understand the one question which applies to all decisions in life, congratulations: You have entered adulthood. Dennis explains this most interesting concept and asks & answers why hydroxychloroquine remains so controversial, even though it is saving lives. Enjoy! Column mentioned: https://www.dennisprager.com/column/if-half-the-countrys-deaths-were-in-montana-would-new-york-shut-down/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yet again, predictive computer models fail to predict. The coronavirus variance from region to region appears to contradict those models—and the quarantine and lockdown strategies recommended by experts do as well. What to make of it all? Dennis offers his thoughts. Dennis's column referenced: https://l.prageru.com/34IO2Sz 0:00 Stuffed Version Of Your Dog? 1:06 What “The Economy” Actually Means 3:24 Experts Influencing Policy 5:37 Knowledge Vs. Wisdom 7:41 Good Intentions Without Wisdom 8:51 Lockdown Affecting The World 11:08 Are Fewer Deaths Due To Lockdown? 14:06 Otto Interruption 14:35 What About Florida? 16:25 Terrible Prices Being Paid 18:24 Why Do We Raise The Speed Limit? 19:08 Approach To Stimulus Checks 21:09 Debt Due To Government Help 23:50 Prayer: God Is Not Our Butler 26:23 Success And Character 27:50 Bigger Government, Smaller Citizen 30:17 Dog Chaos Builds, See You Next Week Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can you guess which topics elicit the most mockery? God, religion, and morality. In the absence of a rational argument, mockery takes it place. Dennis responds to those comments and asks whether science is able to offer answers to life's greatest questions: knowing right from wrong and good from evil. Enjoy! This episode is sponsored by the T. W. Lewis Foundation. To learn more, visit https://solidgroundbook.com/ 5-Minute Video Discussed: https://www.prageru.com/video/was-it-wrong-to-drop-the-atom-bomb-on-japan/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The big topic no one's talking about: Who are the most vulnerable to the social and economic devastation of the coronavirus quarantine? It's probably not the group you suspect. Dennis also replies to some arguments made: memes, tweets, and direct disagreements. Enjoy. Referenced in this Fireside Chat: COVID-19 — Navigating the Uncharted https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2002387 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are we taking reasonable measures to fight the coronavirus? Could destroying our economy, livelihoods, and businesses cause more damage than the illness? Dennis answers some tough questions and offers productive things to do during this difficult time. This episode is based on Dennis's column, Suggestions for This Difficult Time: https://www.dennisprager.com/suggestions-for-this-difficult-time/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There is no such thing as a pain-free life, and the earlier you understand that pain is inevitable, the happier you will be. This Fireside Chat is dedicated to the silver linings found in difficult times. March is fundraising month for PragerU! Help keep our videos free by donating at https://www.prageru.com/donate/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You can't expect to live a full life without assuming some risk. There's a spectrum between precaution and panic, and if isn't well-calibrated you can miss out on the best things life has to offer. March is fundraising month for PragerU. Help keep our videos free by donating at https://www.prageru.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

They may be the two most important questions one can ask: Are people basically good? And how do you make good people? In other words, is the ultimate goal of parenting to raise children to be good rather than merely to feel good? Don't miss the special video question with Candace Owens! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week’s episode is inspired by a story out of the University of Montana and their cries of racism where there is none. Why do people have the desire to find racism in every aspect of society? Answer: Humans cannot be happy without meaning; so when you lack meaning in your life, you invent false evils to fill the void. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Every attack from the left validates our message and its importance. Dennis Prager discusses the absurd smear attempt by Samantha Bee on national television and its fantastic (unintended) outcome. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Should the U.S. military be the world's strongest? A Pew Research study says “55% of Democrats under age 30 say it would be acceptable if other nations became as militarily powerful as the U.S.” It's an incredible position to hold, considering the reality. Dennis Prager explains how young people have been so misled in this latest Fireside Chat! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The education system is saturated in leftism—and not just in the U.S. Students worldwide who question leftist orthodoxy are often left feeling isolated. Dennis Prager speaks to several of those international students who have found a needed community in PragerFORCE. It was a joy to visit with these bright and compassionate students! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Young Americans have been taught to feel unlucky and oppressed, despite living in the freest and most prosperous country on Earth. This is a very damaging concept from the left. Although there are challenges in life, it’s important to be grateful. Dennis Prager discusses why. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

More than a third of millennials now approve of communism. Dennis Prager discusses why this disturbing fact is a result of the poor education system. Students today are not taught to understand the evils of communism and why it is a dangerous ideology. Mentioned in this episode: 5-Minute Video: Why Isn’t Communism as Hated as Nazism? https://www.prageru.com/video/why-isnt-communism-as-hated-as-nazism/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No one wants to be judged by the remarks they have made in private. Yet many people judge (if not obsess over) the private remarks of others. Let's talk about this. Mentioned in this episode: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB96387586027646615 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The left-wing media is threatened by the reach and influence of PragerU. Since their reporters cannot demonstrate any evidence of lies or misinformation, they resort to smear tactics. The New York Times and Newsweek are the most recent examples. The New York Times Article about PragerU: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/04/us/politics/dennis-prager-university.html Newsweek Article Lying About Dennis: https://www.newsweek.com/dennis-prager-anne-frank-diary-immature-16-year-old-girl-good-heart-conservative-radio-host-1479883?fbclid=IwAR0LLMKtc6GkYJSihm-NeX5fpdd4kcd4AcMbAAvYZYHV2VF1O7pUdwc4rEI Dennis’s Column About Newsweek: https://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2020/01/07/newsweek-hits-a-new-low-n2559054 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Dennis addresses common criticisms of the President's character and why any perceived personal flaws should be secondary to our focus on his job performance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How can you make the most of your New Year’s resolutions? Dennis Prager provides some helpful advice and shares why resolutions are good (hint: they show that you are trying to improve your life in some way)! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Should you lie to your kids about Santa? And why not just say Happy Holidays? Is the commercialization of Christmas really that bad? Dennis Prager discusses all this and more in this special Christmas episode of Fireside Chat! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Dennis Prager addresses why the rates of depression among college students are the highest ever recorded. No desire to have a family, no religion, and contempt for America are several contributing factors to this rise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week’s Fireside Chat is inspired by Dennis Prager’s recent column: "What the Left Tells Young Americans." Dennis lists some of the messages the left pushes to young people, all of which are lies. Why? Because they're unhappy and want you to be, too. 5-Minute Video: There Is No Gender Wage Gap https://www.prageru.com/video/there-is-no-gender-wage-gap/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week’s Fireside Chat is all about Dennis’s specialty: Gratitude. You cannot be a happy or good person without being grateful. Our society cultivates ungratefulness, which only leads to swaths of unhappy people and disastrous consequences. This episode is sponsored by Colorado Christian University. Click here to learn more: https://www.prageru.com/ccu/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's a common question: How do you stay happy when our liberties and freedoms (particularly on college campuses) are under attack? Dennis weighs in in this latest Fireside Chat. Dennis Prager and Adam Carolla’s new movie, No Safe Spaces, gives a look inside what is happening on American college campuses today. Check your local theaters for showtimes: https://nosafespaces.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Dennis Prager addresses the lies the left tells, including the outrageous claim that men can have periods, too. He then discusses his appearance on Bill Maher's show and how the left always says that conservatives over-exaggerate their claims. Tune in! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

During this week’s Fireside Chat, Dennis drops a truth bomb that is rarely stated: The greatest problem in your life is YOU. Blaming society (i.e. sexism, racism, homophobia, etc.) for your problems is counterproductive. He continues with thoughts on Kanye West’s transformation, authenticity, and potential impact on culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dennis kicks off this week’s Fireside Chat asking: Is it okay if things bring you happiness? Why should we hate consumerism? He then discusses how the Left deprives people of happiness by encouraging them to believe that the past and the future is awful. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

During this week’s Fireside Chat, Dennis talks about Air Canada removing any mention of “Ladies and Gentlemen” from their flights. Many companies feel a societal pressure to follow new gender rules in order to “act moral." However, caving to the pressure of the LGBTQ lobby is damaging to society. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What’s more important? How you behave or how you feel? Dennis explains why good intentions are irrelevant if they don't match up with our actions. Have a question for Dennis? Click here: https://www.prageru.com/fireside-chats/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Dennis Prager discusses why Hong Kong's citizens are demanding freedom and protesting China's communist government. History is doomed to repeat itself if we don’t remember the horrors caused by communism and socialism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

During this week’s Fireside Chat, Dennis addresses the not-so-existential threat to our globe: Climate Change. Adults need to stop scaring children into thinking the world is going to end. • Climate Change: Don’t Worry • Proof Climate Change Isn’t Existential • Stop Instilling Fear In Kids • Bald Men: Fret Not! • Does Dennis Like To Gamble? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week’s Fireside Chat, Dennis discusses the moral choice between smoking cigarettes versus smoking marijuana, and how blessed we are to have electrical power and the fossil fuels that enable everyday life. Dennis kicks off the Q&A with our very first VIDEO question from a PragerFORCE student! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With this week's Fireside Chat we hit episode 100, featuring the man who came up with the idea of PragerU - Allen Estrin. Tune in as Dennis and Allen reminisce over throwback stories, plus a surprising reveal from the day they met... Have a question for Dennis? Submit it here: https://www.prageru.com/fireside-chats/#ask-dennis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week’s Fireside Chat, Dennis addresses the Los Angeles Times's critiques of PragerU. Two popular criticisms: that PragerU "indoctrinates” viewers and PragerU "is not a real university.” Later Dennis explains why objecting to President Trump's tweets is not a good reason to discount his leadership. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Does poverty cause crime? Dennis explains why this claim is untrue and the reason oppression cannot be a valid excuse for criminal activity. This episode is sponsored by Colorado Christian University. Learn more at PragerU.com/CCU Submit a question to Fireside Chat here: https://www.prageru.com/fireside-chats/#ask-dennis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Despite what the left says, you can be Black and a conservative! Dennis Prager sits down with Derryck Green this week to discuss how his personal experiences shaped his political views and what it's like to be conservative in a black family. This episode is sponsored by Colorado Christian University. Learn more at: PragerU.com/CCU Derryck Green’s Five Minute Video: https://www.prageru.com/video/who-are-the-racists/ Submit a question to Fireside Chat here: https://www.prageru.com/fireside-chats/#ask-dennis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why does the left produce mean people? In this week's Fireside Chat, Dennis Prager discusses his son's recent encounter with a leftist. To justify their behavior towards those with different views, the left simply demonizes them as bad people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

During this week’s Fireside Chat, Dennis discusses Trump’s widely misrepresented words, “Very Fine People.” What did Trump mean when he said that? Does he think Nazis are very fine people? Is Trump himself a Nazi? The left is very good at denying the reality of America and manufacturing hysteria where there is none. Submit a question to Fireside Chat here. https://www.prageru.com/fireside-chats/#ask-dennis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this Fireside Chat, Dennis answers a frequently-asked question: How do you deal with all the hate and name-calling? It's a fact that if you disagree with the left, they will hit you with SIXHIRB: sexist, intolerant, xenophobic, homophobic, Islamophobic, racist, and bigoted. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week’s Fireside Chat features Adam Carolla, comedian and host of one of the most downloaded podcasts in the world, the Adam Carolla Show. They discuss their upcoming movie, “No Safe Spaces,” and college students who cannot handle the presence of conservative ideas. The left can’t stand their ideas being challenged and the movie takes an unfiltered look at their immaturity. Submit a question to Fireside Chat here: https://www.prageru.com/fireside-chats/#ask-dennis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are you a Republican? Have you been called a racist Nazi by leftists? Dennis has a question for those leftists. This week’s Fireside Chat addresses how the left cheapens Nazi evil. Watch Dennis's Testimony in Front of Senate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llt6kiwKwVI Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Dennis talks about his Senate Judiciary hearing testimony on Big Tech censorship on behalf of PragerU. Why has Google/YouTube placed so many PragerU videos on its restricted list? A Google representative gives a baffling, comedic answer. Watch our video on The Ten Commandments and see how “dangerous” it is: https://www.prageru.com/video/the-ten-commandments-what-you-should-know/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

During this week’s Fireside Chat, Dennis talks about the phrase he hears all the time: “People shouldn’t profit from other people’s illness.” Dennis’s response: Why not? Profit incentivizes great and valuable work. Ask Dennis a question here. https://www.prageru.com/fireside-chats/#ask-dennis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happy 4th of July! This week’s Fireside Chat is all about America. The left wants to push the narrative that America is a racist nation, but the question is raised: If that is true, then why the need to make up racist hoaxes? Dennis also discusses Antifa and the lack of meaning in their lives. He continues on with your questions. • Dennis’s Love For America, Article Referenced: https://www.dennisprager.com/when-i-first-realized-america-is-exceptional/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week’s Fireside Chat is all about Google/YouTube’s censorship. Why does a differing opinion automatically mean it is offensive and controversial? There are over 100 PragerU videos that YouTube has placed on its restricted list, and we have never been given a reason why. Ask Dennis a question here. https://www.prageru.com/fireside-chats/#ask-dennis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dennis spends this week’s Fireside Chat answering a viewer’s question about men's sexual nature. Men's and women's natures are very different, no matter how much society and the media pretend otherwise. Dennis gives several examples of proof, known after many years of hosting the male-female hour on his radio show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week’s Fireside Chat, Dennis notes that millennials do not invest in a 401k because they think climate change will destroy the earth. He goes on to list examples of other leftist hysterias that are all based on lies. Dennis continues to answer viewers' questions like, “What does 'woke' mean?” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

During this week’s Fireside Chat, Dennis talks about mass shootings and why they have drastically increased since the 1950s. There are four reasons we can point to that link to why there are so many mass shootings today, and access to guns is not it. Dennis continues to answer your questions. Have a question for Dennis? Submit it here: https://www.prageru.com/fireside-chats/#ask-dennis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of Fireside Chats, Dennis talks about one of his favorite hobbies since he was young: photography. Today, however, technology has killed creativity and passion in individuals. Where are young people’s desires to learn? In addition, Dennis continues to answer viewers' questions. Have a question for Dennis? Submit it here. https://www.prageru.com/fireside-chats/#ask-dennis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

During this week's Fireside Chat, Dennis focuses on your burning questions: What does Dennis think about online dating? Which is better: nationalism or patriotism? Is democracy dying? Is a civil war coming? Have a question for Dennis? Submit it here: https://www.prageru.com/fireside-chats/#ask-dennis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dennis starts off this week’s Fireside Chat with your questions. He discusses the importance of sharing wisdom with young people, raising good kids over perfect kids, and the value of not following your heart. Dennis ends on discussing his new book in his 5 part Bible commentary - The Rational Bible: Genesis. • Teaching Gender fluidity to Children • How Do You Become a Good Person? • Don’t Follow Your Heart • Love Is Overrated • Liberals Vs. Leftists • The Rational Bible: Genesis is Out Now Have a question for Dennis? Submit it here: https://www.prageru.com/fireside-chats/#ask-dennis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices