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Ms.

Now, MSNOW.

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This is a really hard road to navigate because I am not a Putin apologist.

I think Putin is an absolutely evil guy.

No ifs, ands, or buts.

I think he's a guy who looks at the Cold War and says, wow, that ended the wrong way.

I mean, he has said those words.

He believes in, you know, the former Soviet state.

He is a dictator.

He is bloodthirsty.

He is a killer.

So I want to make sure that everything that needs to be said about Vladimir Putin is said because he is, you know, is a rattlesnake a good pet?

The answer is no.

That's what everybody says.

The actual answer is, yes, as long as you never forget it's a rattlesnake.

The minute you start

treating it as a pet like a puppy dog, you're dead.

So is Putin somebody you can negotiate with?

Yes, as long as you always remember he's Vladimir Putin.

But I think, well, Jason, give me your view on Vladimir Putin and this whole situation.

Vladimir Putin, I believe, is, I mean, I agree with you.

I think that it's very rare in the world to have someone that sees the interests of their country and they're willing to take certain steps.

to ensure that their country is taken care of.

And what I mean by that is willing to just invade a country over it.

Willing to, you know, be a bloodthirsty killer over it.

That's rare.

It's even more rare to have the cartoon villain as a leader like Kim Jong-un.

Kim Jong-un is a total cartoon character.

Yes.

It's also very rare for a country to ignore geopolitical laws and rules like a Hitler and go off and just try and...

you know, conquer an entire continent.

That is also very rare.

Most of the people fall in line of someone like,

I don't know,

just not sure the type of leader.

Basically pick 90% of the leaders out there.

They're willing to go so far.

Putin is willing to go those extra few steps, but he's not a cartoon character.

So what you can always expect from Vladimir Putin is he is willing to do the things to ensure the safety of his country from whatever

fits.

And him.

Which is also a dictatorial regime, the regime.

Correct.

Willing to.

Correct.

So

there's ways that you can predict how this is going to go based off of those rules So that's always when you're when you're looking at this How do you think this is going to go?

What do you think we end up with if anything?

So I think that Vladimir Putin initially wanted to just take all of Ukraine because that solved most of their issues.

Yes.

That that keeps NATO out that keeps

if you look at a map You know, the border of Ukraine and Russia is just a couple hundred miles from Moscow.

So for us in our own perspective, that's like accepting nuclear weapons in Havana.

That can't happen.

It's like New Jersey.

Exactly, right.

So it was a geopolitical, you know, paramount for him to take Ukraine.

He failed at that.

So now what he's looking at, I need some kind of buffer so armies can't go through Ukraine, NATO armies can't go through Ukraine and get to Moscow in an hour.

He's got to do that.

So what he's...

building here, I think, is that now he's established a buffer.

Now, what he's looking for is an excuse to give to his people, look, he'll say the special military operation, that's what he loves to call it, it succeeded.

We have our buffer zone.

I can claim victory for you, his people.

Now, what he also has to leave open for the Europeans and for Ukraine is a way to also say, we won.

We stopped him.

He did not take Ukraine.

If both sides can do that, and I think we're getting hints that we're getting close to that, the Article 5-like

security.

If it's real, if it's real, that's big.

Yes.

Zelensky saying

you can't have territory that you haven't already conquered, as you pointed out.

That's an interesting hint.

That means that he might be willing to accept Crimea going their way and other of those areas providing that buffer zone needs to be done.

And there is a new poll out that shows from Ukraine that the Ukrainians don't want to give any land back.

But Stu, who is so good at reading polls, that's not exactly what it says, is it?

Yeah, the poll actually is they don't want to give up more land that has already been occupied.

That's where the 78% comes in.

And I think that's going to be a problem because, I mean, Putin seems to want additional land, including like these two cities that are central to the defense of Ukraine.

So that is going to be a real problem in the negotiations, whether they can parse that center or not.

If they're not occupied,

I think that's where Trump is trying to push them.

I agree.

Keep the land you already have occupied.

I think that's where Trump is trying to push him.

I think

that's good shape.

I think Ukraine would,

you know, a lot of different parts of this negotiation have to go a specific way, but I think there's a world in which Ukraine accepts that.

The problem is, at least at this point, Russia seems to be asking for more than that.

They seem to be asking for multiple cities and areas that they do not currently occupy.

They want that entire entire Donbass region, which would include.

No, no, no, I don't think that's reasonable.

I agree.

And

that's absolutely what Putin wants.

If you look at a map, he wants the area from right where you see Belarus and Ukraine connect.

He would love to have that area all the way down the coast of Crimea because that's the full buffer zone.

That's what he's going to push for.

Right.

But I don't think that's reasonable to ask.

That's where Marco Rubio is like, everybody's going to have to give up something.

And, you know, I think if Ukraine can live with they conquered this land that they're in this land

and

just we're just drawing a line there I think Putin

should

be willing to accept that it's not what he wants but he would be willing to accept that because it does give him the buffer zone does it not if he just keeps the conquered land that he has now yes it's not the full buffer zone that he would like but it is a buffer zone yeah nobody's going to get everything that they want um and i think the polling shows that that is seemingly acceptable to the Ukrainian people, that if you don't, if you're occupying it right now, you've got to keep that.

We can live with that.

And then

Ukraine gets the Article 5, which is all they is what they said.

That's what started this whole thing.

They wanted protection from Russia, and they wanted to join NATO.

The reason why they wanted to join NATO is because they wanted the Article V protection.

If Russia comes in, then that triggers NATO to come in and fight the war against Russia.

That keeps them at bay.

So Ukraine, at a very high cost, gets that.

Russia, at a very high cost, gets most of what they want in the buffer zone.

That's a reasonable ending.

Agree or disagree?

No, no, I agree.

And it also sets, I mean, and this is far from over.

So let's say there's some guarantees that last for five, 10, whatever years, how many ever years.

Both sides are going to be looking to play the Chinese perspective on this.

And I say Chinese perspective because if you look at how they treated Taiwan, the Chinese reluctantly gave up Taiwan, and we were involved providing security guarantees,

providing weapons, things like that.

That's how both sides have to be looking to play the long game.

You give this up, you make concessions now.

In the long run, the discussion is still open.

Things may happen.

You can play your little games, all that.

You can look towards maybe taking back that land in some way in the future.

But this is what you accept now and set up this game of chess for longer.

And now at least you're not losing 1.5 million people.

Stu.

First of all, two things.

First, can we ask a question?

Are you guys...

Do you guys believe, are you confident in the idea that Vladimir Putin has accepted this

pseudo-Article 5 opposition.

I have not heard him say that until I hear, because I've heard Trump officials say it, but I am skeptical that he's actually agreed to this.

I just haven't heard him, until I hear him say it.

So when I played, could you play that Trump

sound that we played, Cut Three?

Listen to what he said.

We had a very productive meeting.

There were many, many points that we agreed on.

Most of them, I would say, a couple of big ones that we haven't quite gotten there, but we've made some headway.

I think that's the Article 5 thing.

We've made a lot of headway.

We have some things where we've made agreements, and then we've really made some headway.

We haven't really gotten there yet.

I think that's what he's talking about, is the Article 5.

And then one of his spokespeople come out and say, it's Article 5.

We're willing to do the Article 5 thing because that's Trump speaking it into existence.

He didn't say it with Vladimir Putin standing next to him because they're still working on it.

And I'm sure Vladimir Putin or somebody else is going, no, I'm not really sure about that.

And

so he has one of his

one of his people

floated out there to see the reaction and speak it into existence.

Because I think that is...

If he can get that done, if he can get Russia to accept that, that's enormous.

Enormous.

yeah that would be enormous i'm of the opinion yeah it would be and i'm of the opinion that putin has agreed to that in some way because putin is very quick to put these things down especially to his own people especially if he thinks that he's going to lose public opinion within russia with ordinary russians and he has not done that yet so that's a huge signal to me plus i think that i personally think that a line from donald trump is about territorial concessions i think that is the major sticking point on this and that's what he's gonna have to go back and forth with the Europeans today and Zelensky on.

What are you willing to concede territorially?

Because that's what he's doing.

Do you know enough about where everybody is going to come down?

I mean, I'm sure Maloney is going to come down with Trump.

Germany probably will come down with Trump.

No?

Probably not.

It's very hard to predict on the European side because they have more skin in the game on this.

It's a very different argument with them.

But you get, if you can get the Article 5, that's what they've been wanting.

Yeah.

So, I mean, that, that, I mean, that is such a huge concession.

You know, it's weird because you know what the press is going to say.

If, if he gives up LAN and we have the Article 5

and he gets that deal done, the press is going to call him Hitler and Neville Chamberlain at the same time.

I don't know how that works, but yeah,

it'll be like, it's Hitler and Neville Chamberlain.

How?

But they will make that case.

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Well, looking at the president's schedule,

it looks like he's going to be a little busy today.

He's got some photos he's got to take around 2 o'clock in the afternoon.

Sounds like Biden's schedule.

He first meets with Zelensky, I think, at 1 for one-on-one bilateral talks.

Then he's going in and he greets the leaders in the state dining room.

And then I think he takes some pictures with their families, et cetera, et cetera.

And then they go into serious meetings about that around 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

And, of course, you'll get all of it covered on MSNBC

later today.

I don't know if it'll be covered on MSNBC.

I guess today that might be true.

That might be true.

But soon it will no longer be true, Glenn.

MSNBC is changing its name.

They're changing their name.

The American institution

of MSNBC, it's jarring to lose that close working relationship, which is how it started between Microsoft and NBC.

Right.

This is for Microsoft and NBC.

Yes.

And Microsoft has been out of this for a long time, haven't they?

Yes, they've been out of it for a long time, but they kept the MS in there.

Why?

That I don't know.

I can't explain many of the things they they do.

Right.

Okay, all right.

Okay.

I think most people would be, you know, that wouldn't remember it would be shocked to realize that Microsoft was once a big part of this.

It was supposed to be, I think it was the first embrace of digital at that level, right?

Like, it was a big deal at that time.

Didn't last long.

There's nothing that says credibility more than the mainstream media and Bill Gates.

Right.

When you put those two things together, you know you got something special.

You really do.

So is NBC suing MSNBC?

Like,

we even can't have our name on that.

They're spinning them off.

So NBC is spinning off MSNBC into its own separate company.

They are apparently hiring right now because they're losing access to the NBC news room.

So they need to hire a whole new batch of horrible journalists that make a mockery of the profession to bring over there.

When does this happen?

When does this go through?

The official change.

I don't know.

This is the first date they're announcing the new name.

Let's see if I can find when that actually happens.

It launched, by the way, in 1996,

in case you were wondering how long this thing's been around.

It seems like

it was 1896 or 1796.

I know.

It actually had some credibility at the very beginning.

I think Lester Holt started on MSNBC.

Yeah,

and back in the 90s.

It was seen.

And it was still left-leaning, but almost left-leaning the way you'd expect every other

piece of crap

mainstream broadcast to be.

It was like CNN.

It was left-leaning, but not necessarily completely insane.

Now, both of them since then have gone completely insane.

And they went through the Keith Olberman period.

And I mean, they've gone so far off the rails, obviously, at this point.

But we know that the new name is.

Do you want to guess?

Do you have any idea?

Have you seen it?

Crap Can.

It is Crap Can.

Yes, Crap Can News.

You're right.

No,

that's CCN.

It might be.

Yeah, a different one.

It might be too confusing.

All right.

Go ahead.

What is it?

It is MS Now.

So let me see if I have this right.

MS hasn't been a part of MSNBC since the turn of the century.

Years and years and years, yeah.

Right.

Yeah.

But they're going to keep the MS part.

Right.

And And the N.

And the N.

And the N.

They're only changing two letters.

That's what it is.

They're like,

we can just cut those two letters out of everything and just put OW there instead of B C.

Now,

other than the fact that MS now sounds like a plea for multiple sclerosis,

do you...

Do you want to take a venture, a guess

as to what this actually stands for?

Each letter stands for something.

Stands for, it's an acronym.

Yes, MS Now.

News.

You're skipping MS, but yes, news.

News is correct.

You got that.

So that one's right.

So you got to get the MS too.

It's not Microsoft.

I have no idea.

Do you want me to tell you what it is?

I do, because I think it's going to be highly entertaining.

Yeah.

My source

news.

My source opinion

world.

So we have, do they have cavemen working at their ad agency?

My source, news, opinion, world,

world.

Fire, good.

I mean, I will say the IT level is about there.

Yeah.

My source news, opinion, and world.

Yes.

Now, you're a guy who's who's done this, right?

You've

the Blaze, you came up with

the name of that, GBTV before that.

The torch coming soon

to you.

You also have

many radio stations that you programmed back in the day where you would look at what they were presenting.

And so if you're looking at all that as an expert in this field, how would you grade this rebrand for MSNBC?

Does zero count?

Usually it's 10 to 1, you know, 1 to 10.

Can I include zero

or negative numbers?

That is the worst rebranding I've ever heard.

Yeah, it's really bad.

Just start fresh from the very beginning.

Come up with something good.

Yeah.

But they're trying to obviously bridge that gap to, hey, this is what we've always been.

So you get the MS gives you a little bit of familiarity.

The logo.

So it's going to be, well, it's a wait, wait, wait, wait.

So it's not MS Now.

They're going to call it MSNOW.

I think they're going to call it MS Now.

I think they're trying to keep the MS as something,

you know.

Again, only people think of multiple sclerosis.

Nobody thinks.

Nobody thinks of Microsoft.

Nobody thinks of McClosos.

They'd think of multiple sclerosis.

They don't want anybody to think of Microsoft.

They haven't been involved in it forever.

They'd rather have you think of a debilitating disease.

Yes.

Than Microsoft.

That is better than their reputation.

Yes.

It is.

The other thing you could look at it if you wanted to.

They could go the feminist direction and call it Ms.

now.

Oh, my gosh.

That could be something they could try.

Me.

Oh, my gosh.

That sounds like something they would love

because it indicates to me it's an absolute,

guaranteed flaming

just

ball of death as it hits this as it hits the ground ms now that just sounds like something that like yeah we should do that we should do that

no you're gonna crash this plane into the side of the mountain it's just gonna be a fiery ball of wreckage it's not good to be clear the plane has only been flying like two feet off the ground for many many years but yes they might actually crash it this time uh i could see ms Now actually being the way they go, which would be even more comical, though that would require them, I think, in theory, to define what a woman is if they went with Ms.

Now.

Though that might not work either.

This is a tough one.

And when is this happening?

I have not seen the exact date.

It is supposed to be soon.

The spin-off was announced last winter.

They initially said they would be keeping its name, but then during the transitional transitional period, they decided that they needed a new separate identity.

So can I ask you, why, who's making these decisions and hiring?

NBC?

Is NBC like, you know what?

We're going to staff and design our competitor.

Yeah, kind of.

I mean, because it does.

Why would you do that?

One of the statements I saw said NBC Universal decided.

So I guess because they haven't fully spun off yet, they actually are making these decisions.

Maybe they have a bet that

they're bringing it off, but they're keeping.

Are they keeping it in the Universal Comcast world?

I don't think it's a separate company.

I think it's going to be sold

separate company.

Why wouldn't you just sell the position?

Why wouldn't you just sell the cable access, you know, like Current did?

Remember when Current sold it to

they couldn't sell that.

They wouldn't sell.

Al Gore would not sell Current TV to Glenn Beck because I was so un-American, in his own words, that he sold it to Al Jazeera.

Right.

I remember this.

You know, the company that bought it with oil monies

from Al Gore.

So that made a lot of sense to him.

So

why wouldn't they just sell that position?

Why wouldn't they just go, it's up for sale?

Why would you buy something that NBC created

that, I mean,

so wait a minute, you hired everybody, but you hired them

because you wouldn't give anybody on NBC a role there.

So you were like, why would you have hired, you find anybody good, you'd be like, yeah, save those guys for NBC.

This guy belongs at Ms.

Now.

That's what we're calling it from here on out, Stu.

That's good.

Ms.

Now.

Ms.

Now.

Ms.

Now.

Ms.

is too good.

Now, remember, too, at one point, Elon Musk contemplated the potential purchase of MSNBC.

He's smarter than that.

Yeah.

Why would you want a cable news company?

What is he in a time machine?

He got back into a time machine.

You know,

I'd like to do that, and I'd like a printing press, too.

That's a fair point.

I just, I will say that, and the color scheme and like the logo is really basic.

It looks terrible, honestly.

And

this is going to go, I think, poorly, Glenn.

Poorly.

That's saying something.

When MSNBC is designing something that you think might be worse than MSNBC.

Shocking.

Shocking, you can do it.

You know,

if you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything, Glenn, including making

MSNBC even worse.

I mean, that's like if we designed it.

Honestly, it would be like, okay, all right, let's hire a bunch of lefties.

We're going to call it Ms.

Now.

We're going to lead with, oh my gosh, look at that.

We're going to lead with

guy cheerleaders

and communism.

It's going to be big.

I mean, that sounds like something I would design for them

to either make fun of them or just to be, you know, let's see if we can.

Do you remember when I told you I went to that opera called The Nose?

I took my daughter to the opera.

She loved opera.

And it was, honestly, it was, I don't even know what the story was, but it was

the main character was a nose.

So it's a giant nose with feet coming out of the nostrils.

And

I said at the time, I said, this has to be, this was written by somebody who was like, you know, these opera snobs, I'm going to write this whole thing.

It makes no sense.

It's awful.

But I'm going to say, oh, no, you just don't get it.

You don't get the nose with the feet coming out.

You don't get it?

Well, I guess so.

And they sold it just because opera snobs didn't want to say, I don't get it.

Okay.

You had to get it or you weren't cool.

I think this is what, I think this is what this might be.

This is just might be a play on like, how bad can we make this thing to see if we can get these lefties and go, you don't get Ms.

Now?

You don't understand that?

All right.

Well, whatever.

No, no, no, I get it.

I think it's genius.

In fact, I want to pay more for it.

What a bunch of dopes.

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In the belly of the beast, I'm sitting here with the CEO of Prager U, which we all know if you watched, you know, CNN or, you know, you saw anything from Vox, they are the new PBS,

which I think

because

Marissa Stride is the CEO, she's up here at my ranch because we're filming some stuff for Prager U kids, right?

And

does that make me Elmo?

I think you're more of a big bird.

Big bird.

Okay, okay, good.

All of a sudden, it doesn't feel so great.

So they're claiming that you are becoming the new PBS

because you're going after our kids.

Can you just,

first of all, do you get any money from the federal government?

We won't take a dollar from the government.

That's in our mission.

Well, Stu, help me out.

Doesn't that automatically disqualify you from being PBS?

It does.

I would say it does.

Yes.

I mean, I think the big thing about PBS is they're taking our federal dollars and using it in ways that I don't necessarily agree with, and they can make money on their own.

So

I think the press misses what the problem is with PBS.

So tell me about what you are doing right now, because there's several things.

First of all, let's start with the 250th anniversary.

What are you doing on the 250th anniversary?

So, PragerU uses edutainment.

So, in some ways, they're comparing us to PBS because of that, because we believe that learning should be fun and it should be entertaining.

And that oftentimes, when you're entertained, you can learn.

And so, in that way, we are somewhat similar to PBS.

But what we are doing is we're celebrating America.

America has never been perfect, but it's the greatest country on God's green earth.

And when we are teaching kids to grow up and not love their country, it is causing so many problems.

It's a national security issue.

It's a mental health issue for our children.

And so we are taking this opportunity for America's 250th birthday to just reignite patriotism and give some perspective that, yes, America has its blemishes.

Of course it does.

But America is a great country and has been a leader in greatness for so many years.

And we want to teach that.

And so what we are doing is we're creating content for every single learner, four years old all the way through 104, to remember what

our country is about, what our DNA is.

And the nice thing is, is that it's actual history.

I mean, we cut something yesterday.

We're working on several of these

videos that are going to be used in AP classes, right?

So this is AP history in high schools.

Yes.

I mean, look, so many Americans are learning history through the lens of Howard Zinn.

For those who don't know who Howard Zinn is, I think he categorically destroyed the

history classes in America, right?

Teaching a perspective.

Not all of it was a lie, but it's the footnotes.

It's without the greater perspective of what America is.

And so we are taking American history and we're making it fun and engaging.

And so that students who would watch this course that we're creating together will not learn, not only learn the truth about America, but will have a perspective and enjoy doing it at the same time.

That's the edutainment piece of it.

And it's really amazing because we're not avoiding the bad stuff.

We're doing something today on slavery.

Yes.

And, you know, I saw somewhere I read, you know, they were accusing you guys of Prager U is dismissing slavery and saying it's no big deal.

And I'm like, on what planet, in what parallel universe is Prager U saying that?

Well, what they are saying is we made a video that teaches about Christopher Columbus.

And we basically paraphrased what he would have said to two young kids.

And from Christopher Columbus's perspective, he probably thought that slavery was okay because that's what he did.

And so because we had the cartoon, Christopher Columbus, say, oh, I think slavery is okay.

And then the kids responded back to him in this show that we made, well, actually, slavery is abhorrent.

It is a horrible thing.

We know today that it was a terrible thing that the world engaged in slavery.

And then Christopher Columbus in this cartoon responds and says, oh, wow, I didn't have that perspective.

I didn't know.

That is why we are being attacked because we are paraphrasing what Christopher Columbus would have said.

And so what does the silly media do?

I mean, it's completely cuckoo.

They're claiming that Prager U is claiming that slavery was okay because the character in our cartoon, that character Christopher Columbus, said it was okay.

You know, it's amazing.

I think this stuff is coming undone quickly.

And they're panicking.

I mean, look what you're doing with teachers.

These teachers are moving from, you know,

deeply blue states into red states.

And the states rightfully, you know, are saying, ah, we don't want any of that California crap in our schools.

But if they're licensed to be a teacher, they can teach anywhere.

But that's now changing because states are saying, no, you're coming from California, you're coming from New York.

I want to make sure that you know the things that, you know, are true and we're not having any of this woke crap.

This test that you're giving now, and you've been asked by the states to develop this test, and it is so,

to me, first grade kind of questions, I can't believe there is a problem with this at all.

I mean, we're living in shocking times, Glenn.

It's shocking.

People can see the test.

We've made this test available.

They can go to our website.

They can check it out.

The test is so very basic.

The fact that the media and the

administrators of woke schools are squealing over this test is unbelievable.

It is so very, very basic.

But you're right.

In California, teachers are required to take a course called the PRISM test.

I like to call it the PRISM test because, frankly, I think teachers should go to prison.

But you can't pass this?

Yes,

it's crazy.

The PRISM test is given to Californian teachers.

It's not a test, it's a course.

It's a six-part course that teaches a teacher how to not differentiate between a boy and a girl, how to actually

bring all of this sexualization that we've been complaining about in classrooms.

And so it's not just superintendents of education that have approached us with questions.

How do we help teachers do the right thing?

It's also parents.

Parents are coming to us and saying, well, we don't know if we can trust these teachers anymore.

We're going to send our kids to our schools and have a teacher that can't pass a basic civics test, that can't pass a basic literacy test, that can't pass a basic understanding of what a boy is and what a girl is.

So superintendent of education, Ryan Walters of Oklahoma approached us and said, Can you just do something very basic?

Because the complaints are coming in when parents are sending their kids to schools where teachers who have come in from California and New York are in charge of a classroom and are bringing in the woke indoctrination that they've received in California.

Any idea how many teachers are failing this test?

Well, we are launching this test now.

So, this is a brand new test, but I can tell you how many teachers have been forced to pass the PRISM test in California, almost every single one of them.

So listen to some of these questions.

Stu.

This is multiple choice.

This is not a setup.

This is multiple choice.

So, I mean,

you'll get everyone.

What's the primary?

This is the first question.

What's the primary biological distinction between males and females?

A, height and weight.

B, hairstyle.

C, personal preference.

D, chromosomes and reproductive anatomy.

That's a tough one.

That's a tough one.

Leaning hairstyle.

But I don't know.

At birth, how is a person's biological sex typically identified?

A, personal feelings.

B, parental choice.

C, online registration.

D, visual anatomical observation and chromosomes.

That's a fascinating one.

I mean, obviously the answer is D, but I would say a lot of people on the left would say B, right?

Like it's parental

choice or something.

Yeah, right.

Or personal feelings.

I mean, you know, this only gets, this only gets hard if you are completely disconnected from science and reality.

Well, you mentioned science and reality.

I have spoken to pediatricians and doctors, frankly, from all over the country, who are forced to erase the question of whether they have a boy or a girl in the medical charts when they're receiving a new patient.

So this is not just a problem in schools, but this is a problem in pediatric offices as well.

So yes, sadly, we are living in the twilight zone where teachers have to be taught very basic common sense.

Listen to this.

Name one reason the colonists

fought the British.

A, avoid working the land.

B, higher social standing.

C, resist forced army service.

D, protest high British taxes without representation.

I mean, honestly, fifth graders, in my day, fifth graders would be able to take this.

You know, 100 years ago, first graders would be insulted by these.

Who was the first president?

John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Greg Washington, or George Washington?

I'm pretty sure it was Greg.

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

Ended prohibition, freed Confederate generals, freed the slaves in the North, freed the slaves in the South.

Honestly, you cannot be a teacher if you don't know these things.

we agree we agree and as much as we're giggling about it and you know it it sounds funny but it's really not funny glenn it's it's really sad and it's really upsetting part of what this test is doing is it's actually recalibrating what is happening in the classrooms it's reminding teachers to focus on what matters it's reminding teachers to actually look at the world through common sense a lens of common sense and sadly the teacher indoctrination centers which is basically the teacher seminaries,

the colleges for teachers, have been turning the world upside down.

And they're training these young teachers to go into our classrooms.

And

you're lucky if they know nothing.

The problem is the Marxism that they're being taught.

I know, I know.

Talk to me a little bit about Hungary because you just got back from Hungary, didn't you?

Weren't you there last week?

Yes, we were in Hungary last week.

What is happening in Hungary?

So what is happening now is the world is realizing that there's a real attack on common sense everywhere and there's an attack on values and prager you through our edutainment model has been successful here in the united states i mean as you could see cnn new york times are all upset that we're becoming the new pbs as they call us and we don't want to just create a system that helps America.

We want to create an industry that helps the world.

We want the world to be a better place, Glenn.

And so when other places, when other countries approach PragerU and say, hey, how do we do edutainment in our own country?

Our answer is yes.

And so we have created now a training system for other countries so that they can bring these wholesome, patriotic values to their own countries.

So we flew to Hungary to train them.

We've been training some folks in the UK.

Canadians have come out to Prager U.

We've done the same training for them.

For a very long time, I hate to say this, over the last 10 years, America has been exporting some real bad ideas.

USAID.

USAID has been a huge problem.

It's been propagating a lot of this gender blur stuff.

And to countries that were dead set against it, but were starving.

You can't get the aid unless you teach this.

Exactly.

And they did because they had to.

We've been bribing other countries to do the wrong thing.

It's awful.

To sexualize their children.

And so we feel that as an organization that is helping save America, we are trying to undo that damage as well.

And if we can train other countries to undo the damage, then that's what we're doing.

So do you base that on their stuff or do you base that on like the American understanding of freedom?

So

we have a set of values at PragerU, which is

what we call the American DNA, our understanding of freedom.

We are not looking to export American ideas to other countries.

What we are looking to do is teach them the model of how edutainment works and to teach them a model of how Prager U follows its values.

Now, many of them, and we do make sure that the folks that we're working with do honor and respect our values.

We're not going to train a bunch of Marxists in doing so.

And many of them are using some of our videos as a baseline for teaching.

Well, you're doing God's work, and I am so proud to partner with you and to call you friend.

And Dennis, the same.

Can you give me a quick update?

I've only got a couple of seconds.

Quick update on Dennis.

How is he doing?

So Dennis had a very severe injury.

For those who don't know the background, he fell down.

He hit his spinal cord.

The spinal cord injury is at the top of his spine.

And so it makes it very, very difficult for him to breathe.

And that's why the recovery is taking so long.

It's been already nine months that he's been laying down.

His mind is there.

His body is not there.

But he has the good news is he just completed another book.

So Dennis is living his values.

Yeah.

Well, we pray for him all the time.

Thank you so much.

By the way, if you want to give to Prager U,

Mercury One has given to Prager U.

Tanya and I donate to Prager U.

I mean, I really, I believe these guys really are saving the Republic.

It's one of the most important movements.

This month, they are doing a matching dollar for dollar.

So you give a dollar, somebody else will give a dollar to match it.

So you double the effect.

Please give to PragerU.

Go to PragerU.com, PragerU.com.

Thank you.

Better you than the government.

You don't take a dollar.

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