Fireside Chat Ep. 242 — The Necessity of Fathers | Fireside Chat

Hi everybody, welcome to fireside chat number 242 And i'm dennis prager and this is otto otto needs no introduction And I could prove it I got a a beautiful illustration from an eight-year-old Viewer in louisiana. Lydia. Thank you. I loved your letter And here is her rendition of otto and me Let me get that up here. I'm framing it actually Nice job for an eight-year-old. It's better than I could do and i'm not eight Okay, otto you are the uh Subject of a great deal of attention in the world All right. So everybody uh father's day is coming up. I'm going to talk about fathers. It's very appropriate We have on otto's tales for father's day. That's my dad. It's a rendition of my own father He lived till 96 I have a few things to say about my dad Since it's father's day. I think it's appropriate and of course, that's otto and me To be technical. It's otto and I I'm a big grammar fan just for the record And you can get this otto tales otto's tales at amazon Or you can watch it being enacted and it is read by craig and That's an in joke I I read craig a lot. So that was just another example of ribbing him craig is an An instrumental part of prager you anyway, you'll love it. It's videoed and you can get the otto's tales about my dad and The two of us on one of our adventures So it's an interesting thing. I've thought a lot a lot about fathers. I am a father I have two wonderful sons. I am blessed I'll even say a word about being blessed with the type of children you have I am a realist and I don't have a romantic view of life. I don't have a cynical view of life I really really try to see what is true And that's been part of the reason to the extent that i've been effective in touching people's lives It's because i'm real and I see the world realistically I'll give you an example in terms of my saying i'm blessed with my two sons There's a lot of luck in how your children turn out people don't like to acknowledge that Almost nobody likes to acknowledge it The only people who acknowledge it are a lot of people whose children didn't turn out. So well, I guess they would acknowledge there's luck If you're blessed with your children You you you may well have done a good job as a parent There is such a thing as doing a good job as a parent. I don't deny that I hope I did a good job. I don't know if I did a great job, but I hope I did a good job But there's luck no matter what and what troubles people I know this from my radio show I have a great advantage over anybody else talking publicly And that is that I have been talking with not just two people for 40 years I I figured out that I have talked with more people than anybody living in the whole world I'm certain of that 40 years of talking with people not just two And i've learned a great deal and a lot of people are upset when I say there's luck in life A lot of religious people find that particularly troubling Big tech censorship continues to be a big challenge for prager you and it's more important than ever that our audience watches our content On our platform to continue watching this episode of the fireside chat go to prageru.com today