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Well, hello there. Welcome to

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Fireside Chat. Are you ready? Number 300.

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And I even have an official streamer,

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blower, squeaker, squawker.

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Very effective. That was an

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embarrassing moment, I have to say. Anyway,

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it is number 300. I'm Dennis Prager, and

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the CEO of PragerU,

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Marissa Streit, is with us to

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celebrate and to bring you actually extremely

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significant news about PragerU. So

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it's a double,

0:36

really wonderful broadcast of

0:38

the Fireside Chat. And

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just to be philosophic for a moment, because I can't

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help it, I'm just philosophic

0:46

by nature.

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And I have mentioned this on a number

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of occasions, I'll say it again. To

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do things, to achieve things

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in life,

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is slow and steady

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is the best way.

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And when I think about it, that

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this is the 300th. You

1:06

know, we didn't do 300 in 300 days. We did 300 in six years. But

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it works that way. It's a good lesson

1:14

for life. Just keep working

1:17

at something.

1:18

You don't have to go crazy, but

1:20

you have to be consistent. And

1:23

it's worked.

1:24

And I will say one other thing about the Fireside

1:27

Chat, which is important to me personally.

1:30

If you watched numbers 10, 47,

1:33

211, 3, well, we're not up to 3, you know, 114,

1:35

you would benefit. I

1:45

don't think anything is dated.

1:48

Some things might have

1:50

had to do with some things that were taking place. I

1:52

spoke a lot about lockdowns and

1:54

why I thought they were a catastrophe. But

1:57

that alone is worth watching.

1:59

would somebody be say

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things so different than what

2:04

the dominant media, the

2:07

dominant scientists, the dominant

2:10

teachers unions were all saying?

2:13

I think there's a lot of lessons to be learned

2:15

there. I'm proud of the fact that

2:17

I didn't buy that stuff and explain

2:20

to you at the time why I didn't.

2:22

So the fireside chat has

2:25

gone through some very interesting years and

2:27

we hope for many more years

2:30

to come. So Marissa,

2:32

I believe you were here for 250, 200, 200.

2:35

So you come

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every hundred. That's fine. I think

2:39

that's a nice tradition to

2:41

establish. Wow. 400. Well

2:45

that's only, it's only two years.

2:48

Yeah. God willing, as they say, God

2:50

willing and God willing will have good

2:52

things to report every time. That's exactly

2:55

right. Put this away cause it's making

2:57

noise. One more time. All

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of them for me. Whose

3:06

idea was this? Nathan

3:08

was your idea. I don't think Snoopy

3:10

likes that noise. Oh that

3:12

did it. You're right. Oh,

3:14

that is so sad. Well

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anyway, did they catch, did you folks catch,

3:19

did they catch Snoopy at least?

3:22

Well, I wonder what

3:24

was the last episode Otto was

3:27

on? Cause you know, I mean,

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we're still publishing Otto's tales. For

3:31

sure. As we should be. Yes. Otto

3:34

truly lives on. There's

3:36

no question about it. Legacy

3:38

of Otto. Well,

3:40

anyway, the fireside chat was,

3:42

I don't even know whose idea it was. We

3:45

had no idea if it had any legs. Me

3:48

sitting in my house, just

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alone talking to people and

3:53

God as it worked out and

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it's unique in anything

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that I do.

3:59

And I can't explain exactly why. It's

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very intimate. Maybe that's part

4:04

of it. It's very real. I try to everything

4:06

I do to be real, but it is. So

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okay. So it's the 300th and

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thank you all

4:13

for being with us for

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the celebration. But we have some extremely,

4:17

extremely significant news. And

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the person best equipped to tell

4:22

it is Marissa. I'll

4:24

say one thing, philosophic.

4:29

So it's an interesting thing.

4:33

I believe you're a gift. I don't believe.

4:36

I know you're a gift to us. Don't even react.

4:38

It's just everybody knows that. So

4:41

the only question is, and this

4:43

is a question, and I don't have an answer.

4:47

Was it good luck that

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we found you or was it God's

4:52

will? And

4:54

I'm not being cute. I'm not being

4:56

even complimentary. It's a compliment,

4:58

but that's not meant. I don't have

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an answer philosophically to that question.

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I deeply believe in God, but I

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don't know.

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I never feel I can

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say God did X or Y

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or Z in my life. Because

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how do I know?

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And yet it's so

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remarkable that you're in my

5:23

life and in PragerU. How

5:27

long did we exist before you came on?

5:29

A day? One

5:32

day. Is that true? Pretty

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much PragerU really started

5:38

in my kitchen after you

5:41

and Alan met with me.

5:45

Right by the studios in Glendale

5:48

where you have your radio

5:50

show and Alan bought

5:52

me a laptop and basically

5:54

said, okay, George Washington. By the

5:56

way, he blew the whole budget by

5:58

getting you a laptop. That was about what

6:01

we had. Right, right. We had

6:03

some very little seed money to

6:05

get started, like many other nonprofits.

6:07

And he said, okay, well, Marissa, you're like George Washington,

6:10

a general without an army, go figure

6:12

it out. And, you know,

6:16

thanks to Alan and you and the fact

6:18

that you believed in me, we kind of took

6:20

one step at a time. And you talk about the fireside chat,

6:22

not knowing really where it's gonna go.

6:24

I mean, that has really been the story of PragerU,

6:27

right? We could get so overwhelmed

6:29

if we think about all the things that we need to fix in America,

6:32

specifically in the world of education. But

6:34

we realized early on is that we should

6:36

just take one step at a time and keep

6:39

experimenting and keep going. And

6:41

the more we did, the more we realized

6:43

we could do more. And that has really

6:46

been the story of us

6:48

over the last 13 years. I

6:51

feel the same way. Did God lead me to

6:54

you? I mean, you have had such an impact

6:56

on my personal life, beyond the career

6:59

and the work that we have done together. I

7:01

know I'm a better mother. I know

7:03

I'm a better wife. I know I'm a better friend. I

7:05

know I'm a better leader, thanks

7:08

to all the wisdom that I have received

7:10

from working with you and learning from you and listening

7:13

to you. I know that there are a lot of people out

7:15

there who are

7:16

listening that feel the same way. I mean, just,

7:18

you have this ability to touch people with

7:21

wisdom. And so many

7:23

trees have grown from that.

7:26

Well, you're a big tree. You're

7:29

a forest. Okay, so

7:31

what's the big news?

7:32

So the big news is that

7:35

we are now making it into schools.

7:37

And Prager, you have started with a

7:39

direct to consumer model. Our concept

7:42

was that America schools are failing

7:44

us, whether it's kindergarten

7:46

through 12th grade or college. We

7:49

know that when we send our kids to school,

7:51

we're playing Russian roulette with their values.

7:54

And so originally we realized that if

7:56

we could only make content that would reach

7:59

our consumers. directly so that they can

8:01

inoculate their kids or kids

8:03

that really want to learn more are able to find

8:05

us on the internet online, they would

8:07

be able to learn what is not being taught in

8:09

schools. And for the first 10 years,

8:11

that was really our model, just make content

8:14

and disseminate it on the internet. Over

8:16

the last two years, we launched a new initiative

8:19

called PragerU Kids, where we started

8:21

making animated shows that take actual

8:25

things that kids should be learning in schools, K through

8:27

12th grade educational tools.

8:30

And we put them on the online through

8:32

our website, through we have an

8:34

OTT, just like Netflix has a little

8:36

app, PragerU has an app and millions

8:39

of parents have downloaded this app and

8:42

have been showing our content on

8:44

their iPads or phones or even on

8:47

our website. And that has been massively

8:49

successful. But most recently,

8:51

we've been able to create a new journey for our

8:54

customers, a new way for kids

8:56

to find PragerU material.

8:59

And that is by

8:59

actually creating turnkey lesson

9:02

plans for schools. Our

9:04

first partner

9:06

is Florida. And so Florida has

9:08

made us a state approved vendor. This

9:10

means that if a teacher uses PragerU

9:13

content, PragerU turnkey lesson

9:15

plans in schools, they should not get

9:17

fired. If they want to purchase any

9:20

of our magazines or books, they can receive state

9:22

funds to purchase them. And so they're not

9:24

out of pocket. And they

9:26

can find our content on the portal

9:29

so that they have more access and more visibility

9:32

to what PragerU is making. And

9:34

we are working very closely with the state

9:37

of Florida to make sure that the videos that we make

9:39

actually echo the state standards.

9:42

And so it's really a partnership

9:46

that we have developed with the state

9:48

educators. This is not just happening

9:50

in Florida, but much of what we're

9:52

seeing in the media right

9:54

now, Florida has been very bold about

9:57

giving the power back to the parents because

9:59

the

9:59

teachers unions have really tried

10:02

to suffocate us out of being involved

10:04

in our kids education. So

10:08

Florida, I'm just reviewing. So

10:11

Florida has announced we're

10:13

official. PragerU materials are

10:15

official. A teacher has

10:17

full permission of the state to use it. No

10:20

school can fire a teacher for doing it. So

10:23

obviously it raises the question. Has any

10:25

teacher been fired for using PragerU

10:27

material?

10:28

Yes. Not necessarily in Florida.

10:30

No, no, not in Florida. Yes. There are many teachers

10:33

who have been fired for using PragerU

10:35

material. Really? Yeah. I

10:37

mean, the SPLC, the Southern Poverty

10:40

Law Center, has put us on

10:42

some sort of hate list. I mean, they themselves

10:44

are a hate group. And so, you know,

10:46

these schools are

10:47

just a group. By the way, we have a video on

10:50

the Southern Poverty Law Center. It

10:53

is truly a vile organization

10:56

of left wing haters. That's all it

10:58

is. Their

11:00

job is to smear anyone

11:03

with whom they differ. Period. And

11:06

that they are cited is depressing.

11:10

Right. I mean, and we

11:13

also know about NewsGuard. So NewsGuard

11:15

has a partnership with the teachers'

11:18

unions. And so

11:20

when kids go online

11:22

in schools, there is this alert

11:24

that shows up that says that the content that

11:26

PragerU makes is misinformation. And

11:29

so schools have been using that as

11:31

a reason to reprimand teachers

11:33

who use

11:34

our content. Oh, interesting.

11:37

That's what they do. That's what they do. If

11:41

any right wing organization said

11:44

this is misinformation, would

11:47

any school put it up? Of course not. Right.

11:50

Right. Which ironically would be accurate

11:52

because there is so much misinformation. Like

11:55

America was founded in 1619.

11:57

Exactly. Like slaves built

11:59

the. country. Slaves

12:02

built plantations. Slaves

12:04

didn't build America. If slaves built

12:07

America, why didn't they build Brazil?

12:10

There were about 10 times more slaves

12:12

brought to Brazil than to

12:14

the United States. Brazil should be the richest

12:16

country in the Western Hemisphere if

12:19

slaves build country. The poorest

12:21

part of America was the South. That was

12:23

where slaves were.

12:25

It's not a knock on slaves.

12:28

It's a knock on lying.

12:30

But they lie

12:32

a lot. They lie about us. So

12:35

let me now, because we talked about this. So

12:37

let me just very quickly deal with

12:39

we're not accredited. We're

12:42

not a PhD

12:44

or degree granting institution.

12:46

We say that on the

12:49

front of everything

12:51

we put out. It is you go

12:53

to PragerU.com.

12:56

That message is there. We are

12:58

not accredited, which means we're not an official

13:01

degree granting, diploma

13:03

granting organization. To

13:05

which my response is, so what?

13:09

And therefore what? Therefore

13:12

you can't learn. Aristotle

13:14

didn't get a PhD. Should

13:17

we study Aristotle?

13:19

They make it sound as if

13:22

that is the only thing

13:27

you can learn from, a place

13:29

that grants degrees.

13:32

But that isn't even true.

13:35

Are they pro Hillsdale College? Hillsdale

13:38

is accredited. Hillsdale grants degrees.

13:41

They hate Hillsdale as much as they hate us.

13:44

Right. Well, you talk about accreditation.

13:46

So one part of it is the people who

13:49

give the accreditations are really

13:52

supported by institutions that are an extension

13:54

of left wing arms.

13:57

If you look at the teachers unions and the

14:00

type of impact or influence that they have

14:02

on the Department of Education. They practically

14:04

own the Department of Education. And

14:07

so we have realized early on that if we

14:09

have to be accredited, we would have

14:11

to do all of the mental gymnastics to

14:13

fit in with what it is that they're expecting

14:15

us to do. And then we would fall into that

14:18

same trap of not being able to teach

14:20

the things or speak about the things that

14:23

are controlled by these large institutions.

14:25

But what's really interesting with PragerUKids

14:27

and this new initiative that we have right now is

14:30

that many states recognize that

14:33

there are ways for kids to learn things

14:35

not through accredited institutions. So several

14:38

states are enacting this new

14:40

program called Learn Everywhere. And

14:43

Learn Everywhere is fascinating because

14:45

they're realizing that there are kids who are learning incredible

14:48

things and doing incredible things that they

14:50

should get school credit for. For

14:52

example, my kids go to something called the Russian

14:55

School of Math on the weekends. Now I know this sounds

14:57

really overwhelming. Why am I sending my

14:59

kids to learn extra math on the weekends?

15:02

But that's one of the things that is important

15:04

to us as a family. Why shouldn't

15:06

my kid actually get school credit

15:09

for learning extra math, even more

15:11

math than what they're learning in school? Or

15:13

there are many kids who are incredibly athletic

15:15

and they're part of maybe a certain

15:18

team or part of a league and

15:20

they work out every day. Is there a reason

15:23

why these kids can't get physical

15:26

ed credit for school? So

15:28

if you think about that and you realize

15:30

that kids can really learn everywhere, why should

15:33

a kid who is learning from PragerU,

15:35

let's say the entire financial literacy

15:37

module, why should they

15:39

not get credit for learning financial

15:41

literacy if they can actually show that

15:44

they're able to complete the entire

15:46

module? And so we're actually working

15:48

with several states right now on giving

15:52

school credit to children who are

15:54

completing our modules. And

15:57

that is an incredible thing. Again, bringing

15:59

the power. our back to the parents, allowing

16:02

the parents to encourage their kids

16:04

to do extra because they will get credit

16:06

for it. This is one of those amazing

16:08

things that we're learning as we're developing this

16:11

PragerU Kids platform.

16:13

Bill Bennett, the former Education

16:16

Secretary and DrugsR was

16:18

in this house many years ago and

16:21

his son was with him

16:23

and he went to Princeton, the

16:25

son. He said, I just want you to know,

16:27

Dennis, I learned more at PragerU than

16:29

at Princeton.

16:31

Yeah. Okay, but Princeton is accredited. Right.

16:34

Just for the record, I do believe that.

16:38

I believe that clearly you're

16:40

not gonna learn physics, chemistry, biology,

16:43

any of the stems, science, technology,

16:46

engineering, math at PragerU. We don't

16:48

teach it, you don't learn it here.

16:50

But with regard to life, understanding

16:53

life, history, the world,

16:56

theology, the

16:57

meaning of life, how

17:00

to be a better human being, you

17:02

would do much better watching all our videos

17:05

than going to almost any college.

17:07

We're talking to many schools about

17:09

giving kids credit for

17:12

learning civics through PragerU. We have a great

17:14

kids show, which by the way is really

17:16

fun. We believe in edutainment or

17:19

like I learned growing up in

17:21

a Jewish household, teach them with honey,

17:23

right? Learning should be a really fun thing. It should

17:25

not feel like a chore. And so we

17:27

try to make our content as entertaining

17:30

as possible. And so teachers really love

17:32

it because we're helping these teachers

17:34

make great lesson plans. What

17:37

a great way to learn civics. What a great way

17:39

to learn American history. Why do

17:41

we have a nation with amnesia,

17:43

as you would say, 13% of

17:46

Americans know what they

17:48

need to know about American history, but

17:50

they can watch our videos, learn

17:53

it.

17:53

Get a certificate provided

17:55

to their schools and the schools can

17:57

give them credit for it. Why not if they know

17:59

that?

17:59

this stuff. Let me show you how the

18:02

left wing covers this news, which

18:05

is driving them crazy that Florida

18:07

has now officially accepted

18:10

PragerU material.

18:12

New at 11 after putting in place

18:14

new standards, the state's education

18:16

commissioner says prevents indoctrination

18:19

in schools. Florida's Department of Education

18:21

has approved educational materials

18:23

from a conservative radio talk show host.

18:26

The CEO of PragerU posted

18:28

this message online.

18:30

We have seen that our schools have been

18:32

hijacked by the left. They have

18:34

been politicized. They have been used

18:36

by union bosses. They have been doing

18:39

everything under the sun, not for

18:41

our children. And the state of Florida just

18:43

announced that we are now becoming an

18:46

official vendor.

18:47

This means that if you are a teacher in

18:50

Florida, you cannot be fired for using

18:52

PragerU content. PragerU

18:55

Kids is a nonprofit and offers its

18:57

content for free on YouTube.

19:00

Critics have called it radical right wing

19:02

content and a statement

19:03

to New 6, FDOE

19:05

says that a Florida Department of Education

19:08

reviewed PragerU Kids and determined

19:10

the material aligns to Florida's revised

19:13

civics and government standards. PragerU

19:15

Kids is no different than many other resources

19:18

which can be used as supplemental materials

19:20

in Florida schools. And from

19:22

the daily beast. And by the way, I believe

19:24

in free speech, they have the right to object,

19:27

but they lie

19:29

because truth is not a left wing value.

19:32

It's a liberal value and a conservative value,

19:34

not a left wing value. So listen to this.

19:38

The right wing advocacy

19:40

group, PragerU. So

19:43

interesting, what makes us right wing?

19:47

It's an interesting question. I won't

19:49

get into that now. I will only

19:51

say right wing for the left means

19:54

anything that

19:56

reveals to the world what the left

19:58

is about, not liberals. We're not anti-liberal.

20:01

We're pro-liberal as it happens because

20:04

we share most values with liberals leftists

20:07

fair share no values with liberals

20:10

so anyone who sort

20:13

of Alerts the world to

20:15

the mortal danger of leftism

20:18

is a right wing. Okay fine The

20:20

right wing advocacy group Prager you

20:23

infamous for publishing

20:26

nationalistic videos So

20:29

you click on it. It's got a URL

20:31

and is that the Yoram Hasoni one? Okay,

20:34

so a word on that first of all, it says videos.

20:37

We have 550 videos

20:40

one

20:40

is on nationalism

20:42

But we're infamous for nationalistic

20:45

media. So it's a lie Secondly

20:48

people should watch it

20:50

and then you decide if that's

20:52

a bad thing a good thing mixed

20:55

bag I Just

20:58

want people to understand there

21:00

is good nationalism and bad

21:03

nationalism Why is that

21:05

so complex?

21:07

The celebration of a good nation is

21:09

good nationalism the celebration

21:12

of a bad nation is bad nationalism

21:16

so Context is

21:18

everything Do we

21:20

want to abolish nations? The

21:22

left does actually therefore anything

21:25

that celebrates nations is

21:27

bad next what else do they say and

21:29

for its founders That's me

21:32

hate of pride month

21:34

So I pretty much

21:37

know what I have said in my life that

21:39

I ever say I hate pride month So

21:42

again, there's an underline you

21:44

click on it. So one one

21:47

thing that comes up is one of my

21:49

columns

21:50

So

21:52

my issue was not

21:55

pride month

21:56

My issue was the whole pride issue. So

21:59

I owe you'll love this

21:59

I opened up with the story of my

22:03

bar mitzvah. One of my gifts was

22:05

a book, Great Jews

22:08

in Sports. It was not a thick

22:10

book. OK, all the

22:12

jokes we know. Right. OK. And

22:15

but I said in my

22:17

article, that's what I opened with. Now,

22:19

am I anti-Jewish? Because

22:21

I don't I said I didn't understand

22:23

at 13 what was

22:26

there to be proud about about great

22:28

Jewish boxers or baseball

22:30

players. I didn't relate to it. I

22:32

still don't relate to it. And

22:34

I at the end, I asked a very important

22:37

question. If you are going

22:39

to take pride in members of your

22:41

ethnic or racial or religious group,

22:44

will you also take shame in

22:46

the ones that do bad? People only

22:48

have it in one direction. There have

22:50

been shameful Jews. There have been terrific

22:52

Jews. There have been shameful blacks, terrific

22:55

blacks, shameful gays, terrific

22:57

gays. So I don't understand.

23:00

That was the whole point of my column. I

23:02

don't understand if you

23:05

didn't achieve something. What are you taking pride

23:07

in? And they listed as Prager's

23:10

known for my hate

23:13

of Pride Month. This

23:15

is what they do. It was a beautiful

23:17

piece about let's celebrate

23:20

achievements, not groups.

23:23

Mm hmm. You should also

23:25

know and notate that David

23:27

Blumberg gave us the seed

23:29

money to make PragerU happen. David

23:32

Blumberg, who is one of our board members.

23:34

And I believe you're a godparent

23:36

to his kids.

23:37

Yes, exactly. He's gay. He's

23:40

he's married to a man. He's

23:42

a board member. He

23:44

gave the seed money. My wife and

23:47

I are, as you point out, godparents

23:49

to this couple's children. They

23:52

know, everyone knows that I

23:55

have been opposed to Oh, let's

23:57

put it this way. I have been for keeping

23:59

the marriage. marriage definition, male and female.

24:02

They know it, I know it, and yet

24:04

I love them, and they love me enough

24:07

that if, what does God parent mean? If

24:09

God forbid they die, my wife and

24:11

I are the moral

24:13

educators of their children.

24:15

Well, one of the reasons why David- Of a gay

24:17

couple's children, I just wanna make that clear.

24:20

Well, one of the reasons why David supported

24:23

PragerU Kids and continues to do so is because

24:26

he is concerned that kids are

24:28

sexualized in classrooms. He

24:30

is concerned with the

24:31

education of- Yes, he has our values.

24:34

He's a gay who has our values. Why

24:36

wouldn't a gay have our values? That's

24:39

the point.

24:39

And so, but they try to attack

24:41

us, making this claim that we hate

24:43

gay people. I mean, as you said in the- Or that I hate

24:46

Pride Month, as if I love all pride

24:48

except LGBTQ pride. I'm

24:51

not a Pride fan, okay? That's

24:53

it. The Daily Beast is

24:56

just lying. These

24:58

are all lies.

24:59

So, okay, fine. So

25:02

the rest is just a description.

25:05

But I want you who, probably

25:07

any of you watching,

25:09

hear

25:11

things about us, check

25:13

into it, click on the underlie,

25:16

the URL, the link,

25:19

and then see what did Dennis

25:22

really say? What did Prager

25:24

you really say?

25:26

And then not only will you realize

25:28

we were lied about,

25:31

you could be proud of what

25:33

we said. It's

25:36

usually morally beautiful. What

25:40

else did we have any other attacks to read?

25:42

Well, you know, one

25:43

of the main criticisms against us

25:45

is that we teach that America is

25:48

a good place, right? We teach Americanism.

25:50

So it's not just nationalism that upsets

25:52

them. It's also the patriotism in our education,

25:55

which I don't understand why people

25:57

would have a hard time. understanding

26:00

that we need to raise kids that love their

26:03

country. How are they going to grow up to defend

26:05

America if they don't understand America

26:08

and love America? What nation on

26:10

planet earth is teaching its students

26:12

to hate its country? It makes no

26:15

sense. And I think one of the reasons why

26:17

so many parents love the PragerU content

26:19

and why millions of them have been using

26:22

our videos is because they do want to raise

26:24

kids that have national pride.

26:27

And this is something that is becoming less

26:29

and less

26:29

popular in schools

26:33

through the popularization of left-wing

26:35

education in public

26:38

schools and even private schools.

26:39

To not

26:41

be grateful to have been

26:43

born in America or to

26:45

have become an American citizen.

26:48

So talk about education and

26:51

gratitude. So I have a line.

26:54

In America you get a BA in ingratitude,

26:57

a

26:57

master's in ingratitude, and

27:00

then a PhD in ingratitude. Right.

27:03

To not be grateful

27:04

for America is

27:07

really I think one of the reasons why so many kids

27:09

are unhappy.

27:10

Well, what are they grateful

27:13

for?

27:14

What is the, what name

27:17

one thing leftists are grateful for? They're

27:19

not grateful for America. They're not grateful for their

27:21

religion. They're not grateful for

27:23

their freedom. What are they grateful for?

27:26

And it's an open question. It's not a, it's not

27:28

even an attack question. I'd like to know, I know

27:31

what liberals are grateful for. I know what conservatives

27:33

are grateful for, what a leftist grateful for.

27:36

And that's why they're unhappy. And every

27:39

poll, even left-wing polls

27:41

say conservatives are more happy than leftists. And

27:44

I'll

27:44

tell you one of the big reasons. We're

27:46

grateful.

27:48

That alone is a reason why parents

27:50

should turn their kids on to PragerU. That's right. To

27:52

raise happy kids. It's not just

27:54

the knowledge that they're getting from us. It's

27:56

the values that they were getting for us.

27:59

the word is at the

28:01

left eight hour

28:03

stuff is wholesome more

28:06

wholesome is like a dead adjective

28:08

fine but

28:09

but it's so

28:11

it it so it's not

28:13

jaded it's

28:16

like i always an almost

28:18

always i can tell if a kid is been home

28:20

schooled and you know how they're

28:23

not jaded her they

28:25

have an open smile

28:27

that you've always associated

28:30

with young people and no no

28:32

longer

28:32

or home school has worked very

28:35

well for families because they really you

28:37

know they not only learn gratitude

28:39

but they actually get knowledge or share

28:41

of iranian what's happening in our schools

28:43

i think one of the reasons why everybody is so

28:45

frustrated as because we send

28:47

them there for hours and ill during the lockdowns

28:50

parents have been able to see what is happening

28:52

you send your kid there for hours and you

28:55

have nothing to show for it like what did you

28:57

learn to date nothing is the

28:59

reason the child is saying that they learn nothing

29:01

today because

29:03

they really get out

29:04

learn nothing probably the answer

29:06

your last year get out there either bored

29:09

because you know they don't have teachers

29:11

that have the right tools to have a great lessons

29:14

or they're bored because frankly

29:16

we have not been able to fire bad teacher

29:18

zero and california only

29:21

less than three out of three

29:23

hundred teachers get fired every year

29:26

have you run a business where you can't fire

29:28

for actually are york

29:31

state will raise the different question

29:33

and be when you said how

29:35

do you i thought you we'll see how

29:37

do you get fired

29:38

how mates impossible to get by

29:40

or what do you do because the unions

29:42

you don't care about our kids and so

29:44

no few of our waking up we want

29:47

our kids to learn stuff you know we're working

29:49

with the state of texas right now which is a fascinating

29:51

project they're starting to bring core knowledge

29:54

into their education system where where

29:56

kids can actually have some cultural

29:58

literacy where is were they can

29:59

learn stuff and what we're doing is

30:02

we're taking the core knowledge

30:04

curriculum that Texas is developing

30:06

and we're turning it into what we call

30:08

these turnkey lesson plans so

30:10

that the teachers can actually use

30:13

the content that we're making, the videos,

30:15

the way to check for understandings and

30:18

actually have successful lessons

30:20

with kids. We don't want our kids

30:22

to be bored in school, we don't want our kids

30:24

to not remember anything, we want

30:27

parents to get involved again. You know how many times

30:30

I've heard from teachers, oh

30:32

the job of a parent is to just bathe

30:35

the kids, feed them, pick them up,

30:37

make sure that they get a good night's sleep. If

30:39

a teacher says that to you, you know

30:42

you need to run. That is not true. Parents

30:44

need to be engaged in their kids education

30:46

and how many times have we asked

30:48

for either the curriculum or the lesson

30:51

plans and we have not been able to gain

30:53

access to that. So one of the things that we're also

30:55

pushing through this initiative is what we call the

30:57

flipped classroom where the videos

31:00

that are shown in class can also

31:02

be

31:02

found on our portal, on

31:04

our website, on our OTT at home

31:06

so the parents can sit together with their

31:09

kids and you know the unions don't want that. The

31:11

unions want to teach whatever it is that they want to indoctrinate

31:13

our kids with. We want the parents to get

31:16

involved. We want the parents to watch the same videos

31:18

at home with their kids and then the

31:21

teachers can use those same videos for reinforcement.

31:24

This stuff is revolutionary in education

31:27

but essentially it's what we're trying to do. We're trying

31:29

to disrupt a market that has not changed

31:32

in a hundred and seventy five years. This

31:34

is the one industry in America that

31:36

has not really developed because

31:38

there's

31:39

been such a monopoly over education

31:42

in America that we have not been able to

31:44

see real progress. So

31:46

is this an acceptable birthday gift to you that

31:48

we're helping change America for

31:51

the better? If there is a better one, well cigars

31:54

are better. Except

31:57

for cigars.

31:59

What could be a better gift?

32:02

I completely agree August is

32:04

my birthday as well, and I can't think

32:06

of a better gift Yes, exactly.

32:08

So happy birthday Dennis.

32:09

Thank you. It's a great birthday.

32:11

Thank you very much. I just

32:14

also want to add before

32:16

we say goodbye That

32:20

when you folks Hear

32:23

about our videos and all the

32:25

what I showed these examples of

32:28

lies if

32:31

you

32:31

Looked at the subject matter

32:34

of the of the nearly six hundred

32:36

five minute videos aside from just purely

32:39

kid stuff

32:41

So much of it is about

32:43

being a better human being Getting

32:46

married working hard

32:48

living by the Ten Commandments Vast

32:54

numbers of it are pure history We

32:57

have a video we're working on videos

32:59

on every one of the presidents and

33:01

they are as fair as fair can be

33:04

You could not know any of

33:07

the political views of Prager you

33:09

watching our

33:10

presidential series Or

33:13

our John you at at

33:15

Berkeley Law School on the Constitution

33:19

You would you it would be difficult

33:22

to ascertain His

33:24

his political views he just explaining

33:26

the Constitution and

33:28

by the way, we have professors from Harvard

33:31

Berkeley Yale Princeton pen

33:35

Columbia You name

33:37

it are all these people

33:40

part of the the

33:42

hate group That the Southern

33:44

Poverty Law Center says we are these

33:47

professors would make videos for a hate group

33:50

It's such a good point because you

33:52

know the left scholastic highlights.

33:54

These are organizations that make kids

33:57

content They're not labeled

33:59

as left-w but look at their content,

34:01

it's as left wing as it gets. Our

34:04

content, especially PragerU Kids, is

34:06

the least political content you will

34:08

ever find. I'm wearing right now these

34:10

earrings, as you could see them, from

34:13

a show that we're about to launch about entrepreneurship.

34:16

There is nothing political about our

34:18

entrepreneurship show. It's really about encouraging

34:21

kids to start businesses, to learn how to hustle.

34:23

The show is called The Hustle. And it

34:25

really is about teaching skills so

34:28

that when these kids grow up, they can go and

34:30

start their own businesses and we want to revive

34:33

the entrepreneurial spirit in America. There's

34:35

nothing political about that. There's nothing political

34:37

about our financial literacy. Yeah,

34:38

but it's healthy. They hate the healthy.

34:40

Correct. They don't want, I

34:42

mean, sometimes I wonder whether they even want our

34:44

kids to be successful. It's

34:47

unbelievable to me. Like they want to keep them down.

34:49

What we want to do is lift our children.

34:51

Well said.

34:54

It's a very big, it's a big deal that

34:56

the 300th fireside chat and

34:59

Florida, are there other states that you can mention

35:02

that are working, we're working with? We're working

35:04

with a whole bunch of states. We'll continue

35:06

to make more announcements. But

35:08

I'll tell you that the superintendents

35:10

and the state commissioners have been thanking

35:13

us because they have been telling us that they

35:15

have worked so hard to either, you know,

35:18

gain those positions where they do have the

35:20

ability to make change, but they

35:23

actually need the right content. And so imagine

35:25

you just joined a school board and

35:27

you want to clean it up. You want

35:29

to bring wholesome content, but you don't have access

35:31

to wholesome content, right? So

35:34

we have this vacuum in the market that PragerU

35:36

is now trying to fill and say, well, if

35:38

you're a local community and you're able to bring

35:41

good stuff to your kids, well,

35:44

what can you lean on? Like I mentioned, you can't

35:46

lean on Scholastic. You can lean on

35:48

highlights. You can't lean on some of these legacy

35:50

organizations that have already been manipulated

35:53

and taken over by the left. We

35:56

are trying to fill in this gap as

35:58

fast as we can. And by the way, for... those who

36:00

are listening and inspired by this, you

36:02

should know that we are being attacked viciously

36:05

by the left. You read one article, I

36:07

have a stack of articles here. We have Yahoo,

36:09

there's a lot of local news

36:12

articles that are coming out attacking

36:14

us. So we need support and people

36:16

can go to PragerU.com, sign our petition

36:18

to state that you do believe

36:21

that PragerU Kids belongs in schools,

36:23

right? Because the media is gonna say that

36:25

PragerU Kids does not belong in schools. Sign

36:27

our petition, support us. The stuff

36:30

is not cheap to make. People who understand

36:32

the world of edutainment

36:35

or entertainment or education need

36:37

to know that we need to hire more teachers, we need to hire

36:39

more animators and illustrators. And so anybody

36:42

that wants to help save America's

36:45

kids' minds should go to PragerU.com

36:47

and enlist in helping us out.

36:49

That's right. And

36:52

we're kicking off fundraising month. Yes,

36:55

we're kicking off fundraising month. That's

36:58

correct. So go to PragerU.com,

37:00

please make a donation. Everything we

37:02

do is free. It's exactly

37:04

right. I

37:06

can summarize it this way.

37:09

We are trying

37:11

to make happy and

37:13

grateful kids.

37:16

They are trying to make angry

37:18

kids. They're succeeding

37:22

and we're succeeding.

37:25

So you have to figure out

37:28

which you'd like to support.

37:30

Marissa, God

37:32

bless you.

37:33

God bless you, Dennis. And

37:35

you know, I mean it from the bottom of my heart.

37:37

You're a gift in

37:39

my life. And

37:42

we hope PragerU is a gift in your life.

37:44

That's really all we want it to

37:46

be. So I'll see you

37:49

at Fireside Chat number 301 next week. Thanks.

37:55

consider

38:00

making a tax-deductible

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donation.