Ep. 321 — Dennis and His Son on Addiction and Hitting Rock Bottom
Fireside Chat with Dennis Prager
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4.8 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This special Fireside Chat features Dennis’s adopted son, Aaron Prager, and his remarkable story of overcoming alcoholism and substance abuse. Aaron talks to his father about meeting his biological mother (who shared his love of alcohol and drugs), the emotional and irrational nature of addiction, his new podcast, and the journey of finding his own identity.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, nearly all the fireside chats are just you and I. Is it are just you and I or are just you and me? |
| 0:18.0 | Now I know most people don't care, but I do in any event on occasion I have a guest and |
| 0:28.0 | this is a special guest as it were well it is a special guest if I'm interested in a |
| 0:36.8 | public figure I'm interested in the people in their lives and their family |
| 0:42.2 | specifically so I have two sons the people in their lives and their family specifically. |
| 0:44.1 | So I have two sons and I'm going to have as my guest today one of my sons, my younger one, |
| 0:50.9 | Aaron, Aaron Prager, and he was born in 1992. By the way, does that make you |
| 0:59.4 | a millennial? I have no idea how these terms are precisely defined. |
| 1:07.0 | That's a millennial? |
| 1:08.0 | It would be millennial. |
| 1:09.0 | I'm pretty sure that GenZ starts 95? |
| 1:12.0 | Oh, really? |
| 1:14.0 | There's an actual date. |
| 1:15.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:16.0 | That's that, okay. |
| 1:17.0 | So you made the millennial crowd. |
| 1:20.0 | Yeah. Aaron has a very, very interesting story. |
| 1:24.0 | I am of the opinion that a good biographer could make anybody's life interesting. |
| 1:30.0 | I do believe that. |
| 1:32.0 | But clearly some people have lived more for good and for ill |
| 1:37.9 | than others have Aaron has had a very intense life. Is that fair to say? |
| 1:43.8 | It's an understatement in some regards, |
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