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Fireside Chat with Dennis Prager

Ep. 323 — DINKs' Biggest Mistake

Fireside Chat with Dennis Prager

PragerU

Self-improvement, Education, How To

4.85.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

More and more American couples are opting to become DINKs—double income, no kids. After all, they’ll enjoy more freedom and have more money if they choose not to have children. But is there something more to life that DINKs are missing? Dennis provides insight, shares his “3 Mirrors Theory,” and answers your questions.

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0:00.0

Hi everybody Dennis Prager with Fireside Chat Number 3-23. That's Snoopy behind me.

0:07.0

With the new seating I don't get a chance to pet the dog but I assure you I do frequent petting of my dogs. They are very

0:17.9

loved. I might add that my home I believe at this point owns more dog beds than human beds.

0:27.6

My wife makes sure that no matter where they go they should never be further than 20 feet away from a proper resting place.

0:37.0

Hi everybody, Fireside Chat, and two weeks ago with my son Aaron on the fireside chat that I had him as my guest.

0:49.3

He mentioned Dink.

0:51.1

I had no idea what a Dink was. By the way, tangential comment number one of the many

0:59.4

that I make in the course of any given podcast or whatever we call this.

1:06.2

So when he said Dink, I said,

1:09.2

what's a dink?

1:11.2

It's a very important lesson in that.

1:14.0

If you don't know something, don't be embarrassed to say you don't know.

1:21.0

And I learned this as I did so much wisdom in my elementary school at a religious Jewish school

1:28.0

where half the day was religious subjects, half the day with secular subjects is very intense and one of the

1:37.8

Sayings I learned a lot of sayings every one of which has shaped my life

1:43.0

Boy that would be a great broadcast.

1:45.0

Sayings that shaped my life.

1:47.0

Let's think about that.

1:48.0

So one of them is, it is from the second holiest work in Judaism after the Bible, the Talmud.

1:59.2

And it's a statement that really got to me.

2:03.0

It was, and I learned it in Hebrew Lo, habei Shan Lomede,

2:08.0

the easily embarrassed doesn't learn.

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