Fireside Chat Ep. 303 — The California Hurricane Freak-Out | Fireside Chat

Hi everybody, Dennis Prager here for Fireside Chat number 303. We missed one. It still bothers me, actually. But I had no choice. I had COVID. I was fine. It wouldn't have looked good if I had COVID and brought staff in to do the show. Show. To do the podcast. Do the show. It is a show. I don't know. Show. Anyway, hi everybody. It's my opportunity to talk to you about what's on my mind and then take your questions and that way I learn what's on your mind. Anyway, these are very special things, the Fireside Chats. Before I continue, I'd just like to remind everybody that this is fundraising week for PragerU. I know it's fundraising month, but especially the week. No, no, no. You were right and I was right. Don't feel bad. And that is that this week is triple X. In other words, whatever you give, donors will triple. That's a very big help. We are really making a difference, PragerU. You know how I know it? Because I see how much we're attacked. I'm serious. That is really one major way of realizing it. We're doing a lot of good and here's one of the awful rules of history. People who do good are loved and hated. You get a lot of both. So help us please because helping the fighters is as important as fighting. PragerU.com is the way to do it and I thank you. I am seated here in Southern California and I rarely mention that, but it is extremely relevant to what I'm going to talk to you about at the opening here. I am broadcasting or podcasting on a day when in the county from which I am broadcasting called Los Angeles County, the schools are all closed. Government workers are not at work and you might say, well, why is that? Is it a holiday? No, it's not a holiday and you're probably wondering why and so am I. That's the killer here. So listen to this. So last week, at the end of last week, there was a constant barrage of news. For the first time since 1939, a tropical storm will hit Southern California and then go up the American West Coast. I live in Southern California. It will be disastrous. So much so that on the night when it was predicted to be the worst, Sunday night, it turned, is the way it worked out. We were warned. I got this every other hour on my phone. Alert, alert, alert. Life-threatening floods coming to Southern California. Do not drive unless it is absolutely necessary for some emergency reason. So I took those warnings as seriously as I took the lockdown warnings during COVID. I just assumed this is hysteria. I was right. So today is Monday. I'm obviously videotaping this. So today, as I speak to you, last night and today, we were warned about how horrific it would be. So there was no kid at a public school in the entire county of Los Angeles, the second largest school district in the United States of America. Please understand something. It's gorgeous. It is not merely not horrific. It's a gorgeous, sunny, 80 degree Fahrenheit, for those of you outside of the U.S. day. The thought that the kids are not at school, as if they didn't lose enough in the nearly two years of lockdowns with COVID. So I got the warnings, life-threatening floods. The governor of California, a Democrat, needless to say, declared a state of emergency before anything happened, before anything happened. The schools, as I say, are closed. Government workers are not going to workers. But I'll tell you what hit home particularly, because Sunday night, which is last night from when I'm taping this, last night I went to a wedding. And last night, which we were warned would be the worst up through to today, it rained. It didn't storm. It just rained. Not even a particularly terrible rain. Just rained. Here's the punchline. So let me remind you folks that at this point, the rest of the Fireside Chat is at PragerU.com. The reason is we don't trust social media to keep us up. So we want to get people in the habit of starting to watch us straight at PragerU, which we ask you to do. The easiest way is with the PragerU app, or you can just go to PragerU.com. But don't miss the rest of this Fireside Chat. The Q&A are as important as whatever I have to say on my own in the opening monologue. So again, PragerU.com. Thanks.