In this episode of The Mailbox Money Show, host Bronson Hill and co-host Nate Hambrick welcome Marissa Streit for a powerful conversation on the future of education, parenting, and preparing the next generation in a rapidly changing world.
They explore how traditional college is often preparing students for jobs that may not exist, the importance of morality, courage, and non-binary thinking, and how AI and innovation are reshaping education, careers, and opportunity.
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Marissa Streit is the CEO of PragerU, the largest conservative edutainment nonprofit reaching billions of views annually. A former Israeli military intelligence officer, she is a passionate advocate for liberty, free speech, and practical education.
Tune in for bold insights on raising resilient kids, rejecting outdated systems, and embracing the American dream of opportunity and self-reliance.
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Full Transcript:
Bronson Hill: Welcome to the Mailbox Money Show. I am your host, Bronson Hill, and I’m really excited today for this show. This is a very special guest we have today. We have Marissa Street, who is the CEO of PragerU, which has become the largest conservative edutainment nonprofit, getting over 2 billion views per year.
She’s former Israeli military intelligence and she’s brought that to grow this platform. How do we educate our kids? And a lot of things that I find when I talk to wealthy people, we do our Wealth Forum event.
We bring wealthy people together. They’re always interested. What do I do for my kids?
Do I send them to college? Do I not? What’s the future of education?
How do I really prepare kids to be successful in life? So before we bring her on and we’ll get her introduced here, we have my amazing co-host here today, Nate Hambrick, the author of the 18 Laws of Leverage. Nate, why don’t you talk just for a minute about what do you think some of the challenges are with education, especially with AI and some of these things that are happening in the world?
Nate Hambrick: Well, I’ll share something that I’m sure is an old thought, but education has a long way to go to catch up with society. And I’ll speak from experience, right? My mother put all 10 of her children in college, her university at the age of 14 or 15.
I got all straight A’s and only one B. And then I graduated and I realized what a waste of time. Now, I know that’s an extreme take. But I do think there are a lot of ways that we can improve it because the reality is business is moving a lot faster than the old fashioned education systems.
And we really do need to catch up.
Bronson Hill: Yeah, love that. Well, I’m excited for this conversation. Marissa, it’s so wonderful to have you today. It’s been wonderful to be friends with you and your husband, Noah.
You guys have been amazing and being a part of YPO with you has been awesome. So welcome today. How are you doing?
Marissa Streit: Honored to be here and I appreciate our friendship, too. And Nate, I know that you think that your comment is extreme, but I actually think it’s honest. I think that and we’re at a point in our lives as parents that we have to be radically honest because we’re raising kids and that is an incredible responsibility.
It’s the most important responsibility we’ll ever have. And honestly, our education has failed us. Our education system has failed our children.
And it is time to be honest about whether it’s worth sending our kids to a four year college with the amount of money that we have to be saddled with. With the opportunity cost of what is going to happen during those formative years with what they’re learning in those schools.
And we have to be radically honest in asking the questions, whether a four year education from the current schools that we are seeing in America, whether it’s worthwhile, right? Or it is very possible that some degrees are a waste of time and money because they’re preparing kids for jobs that no longer exist and will never exist again.
Bronson Hill: Yeah, it’s it is really. I think there’s these two different views. You talked to Dario with Anthropic is like, you know, saying in the next one to five years, we’re going to have 50 percent unemployment for new graduates, college graduates.
And there’s other people saying, actually, what’s happening is the opposite. It’s actually more jobs available. It’s actually creating more jobs.
But it’s really affecting education a lot. So why don’t you talk a little bit about how you see education changing over the next five, 10 years. So if somebody like me and you as well, Marissa have teenagers like what do we do repair that we send them to college?
Do we do kind of an independent study, do internships? Like what is that? What’s the right approach?
Marissa Streit: I don’t know that the education system will be able to keep up with the technology. And part of the problem is education in America has been the only industry in America that has not developed and caught up with with modern life. Mostly because it has been hijacked by administrators and people who kind of live in an esoteric world, right?
Oftentimes they say to those who who can’t end up teaching. And there are many capable people who are teaching and many capable professors out there. But oftentimes the system is built in a way where progress and innovation is stagnated because it’s so heavy. It’s this heavy ship that can’t move around.
And so now, as the rest of us are living in the real world and building businesses, we’re seeing that communication is shifting very quickly. Management is shifting very quickly.
Marketing is shifting very quickly. And these huge behemoth institutions, they can’t shift as fast as as the modern world. And so they’re getting left behind even faster and they don’t have shock absorbers for for new innovation, sadly.
I don’t know whether the education as we know it of a college degree will make any sense into the future. Plus, you add to the fact that you’re hearing all the time that many, many educators and bureaucrats are intimidated by innovation. They’re intimidated by AI and agentic AI.
And I fully understand I am intimidated by it, too. It’s incredibly scary.
It’s a world that we don’t understand. But I would also argue that it’s already out there.
It is already out there whether you have a 13-year-old or a 33-year-old, you know that everybody is already using AI. And so rather than live in fear, we have to live in progress. We have to understand how to harness some of these new technology to our best interest and actually bring goodness out of the technology that that is coming about.
And if you think about human history, technology has always been very scary. I mean, you think about the agricultural revolution and the number of people that lost their jobs. The farmers, you know, America was mostly an economy that was built around farming.
And when the agricultural revolution came about, people were incredibly scared. What is going to happen with all the farmers? But life is not a zero sum game.
We’ve learned that with technology, oftentimes the sum of the prosperity can actually be increased. And some people are going to have to reinvent themselves and find new ways to adapt to the market because they have no other choice. You can’t, you know, unwind those those wheels.
But what you can recognize is that every new industry, every new technology built new opportunities, ones that we can’t even think about right now because we’re unaware of them. So with the agricultural revolution, new industries were created. When the cars were invented and the railroads were invented, people were incredibly intimidated.
What are what’s going to happen with the horse and buggies? What are going to what’s going to happen? But then you saw hotels being developed right along the roads.
And years later, the 7-Elevens and all kinds of new industries came about because transportation became much easier. And I would say that probably the same thing will happen with A.I. The problem we’re going to have is because in America, the education system is so tied to government. It’s very, very difficult to untangle the this third party government NGO interventionist field from a field of education that needs to get modernized, that needs to take advantage of of the new technologies.
But but the bureaucrats are too scared to allow for it to happen.
Nate Hambrick: I was going to ask you about this Marissa, how do you think employers will change the way that they hire? Because as of right now, I think nimble startups, I’ve worked for a bunch of startups. They don’t care at all what your formal education was.
But older companies like like an IBM, like the behemoths. As far as I know, they still really very much do care where you went to college and how that went. How do you think the big employers are going to change the way that they hire people in the next two to five years?
Marissa Streit: I mean, certainly startups don’t care about that. And the startups are a perfect example of being able to see who who can and who cannot because you can’t afford to hire a whole bunch of people that can’t produce for you.
When you would you have a startup, your budget is so tight, you’re hovering over every dollar you’re spending. And if the person is not pulling their weight, they’re gone because you have no other choice. And so I think first you’re going to see with many of the startups that the middle management people are probably going to be let go.
The ones that can’t have wisdom and discernment in their decision making are going to be the first to be let go. Because if all they can do is just memorize, then Claude can do that for you. If all they can do is just bring bring information in a distilled way. You don’t need a secretary or a middle management person to do that for you anymore.
What’s going to happen is you’re going to end up valuing people who can take Claude or any sort of agentic AI and catapult with it. And the people who can catapult with a are people who have wisdom and discernment. These are people who can really bring in some of their EQ factor, their emotional factor.
There are people who are able to think outside the box, take move away from binary choice making and think creatively. Those are the people who you’re watching right now, interacting with AI and they’re just on fire, right? It’s like it’s the entrepreneurs, right?
Bronson Hill: It’s I mean, that’s the whole thing. Robert Kiyosaki, who’s a friend of yours as well, knows that he talks about it. You know, in school, you’re taught that there’s one right answer and everything else is wrong versus or if you collaborate, then that’s called cheating in school.
But in the business world, we do it all the time. And so, for example, I’m doing a build on this manufactured home project I’m doing on private land. And it’s like I’m but you’re going to have, you know, Chad GBT or Claude say, be my 30 year coach in this thing and how this works.
So for entrepreneurs, if you’re willing to just work and figure out how to use these tools, which are actually very intuitive, I’ve just told people that are my age and older, like, hey, if you use Google, like, just use this instead of Google. And instead of all that time we spent doing Internet research, it will just do it like immediately for you. So you mentioned something there.
You talked about the binary choices. Can you talk a little more about that? Because I think that for our culture, it’s like it’s it’s we, you know, kind of in our like the fight or flight is like it’s either this or it’s this, right?
We have this fear AI is either good or it’s bad or it’s got to be this or this. Well, how do we how do we grow ourselves in being open to changes? Because I think over the next five years, one of so many changes, at least self driving everything and robots in our home and all this stuff is like coming and it’s here.
And so how do we embrace getting out of that binary world and into like, hey, there’s many options here.
Marissa Streit: Yeah, I use the term binary choice thinking as an educator because, you know, you know this about me. I taught K through eighth grade in California. I used to run a school and I noticed that the way the way our school, I think every CEO, by the way, should spend at least one year in education because it teaches you so much about the human mind and how we process things.
And, you know, even when you give marching orders to your team members, you’re educating them, right? You need to check for understanding and see that they understand what it is that you are telling them to do. And so the term binary choice is a term that I’ve developed when I was an educator, because if you think about our education system, period one is math, period two, literacy, period three, PE.
But those of us entrepreneurs, we know that life is not chopped up that way. Right. It’s everything has fibers.
It’s all connected. Actually, when you’re doing a little math and a little literacy and everything is interconnected when you when you’re developing a project. But the school system, because it’s such an assembly line mentality, everything has to be compartmentalized.
Oftentimes, even MBA schools will teach you that you need to have org charts and everything needs to be compartmentalized. Those of us entrepreneurs know that our best employees are the ones who are not compartmentalized are the ones who have this big picture thinking, who are able to look at things from a macro perspective and then develop best solutions in order to solve your problems. Now, the school system creates this binary choice mentality.
Think about the scantrons, right? You have to choose out of, you know, four answers, right? Oftentimes, it’s either a yes answer or a no answer.
It’s not maybe something else answer, right? Our entire education system, because it has this Horace Mann mentality. He was an educator that brought this this assembly line thinking, right?
If you are part of the industrial revolution during those days, you just need to keep going, right? You just needed to do your tasks. You didn’t need to be faced with binary choices.
Now, with technology, the best type of employee we could get is one that doesn’t look at the world in yes or no answers, but looks at the world as maybe something completely different beyond that binary choice. That’s what when you think about Elon Musk, right? He runs against the herd and creates something completely different.
It’s no surprise that somebody like Elon Musk is also vilified by much of society because we have a hard time with people who run against the herd because our entire lives, we’ve been taught to think in terms of binary choices, yes or no, or multiple choice mentality. But the best entrepreneurs, the best innovators are ones who reject binary choices and are willing to look at possibly a third, a fourth or a fifth risky, unapproved solution.
And so I think that if we think back about America’s education system and can it keep up with technology and can it keep up with the needs that those of us entrepreneurs are looking for in the workforce, the education system needs to move away from this mindset of binary choices, of creating cubicles, of creating assembly lines, but rather train a workforce that can think in terms of creativity in third or fourth solutions.
And when you interview people, when I interview people for jobs, I actually try to figure out whether they can think in terms of non-binary choices. I’ll ask them a question and I’ll see what kind of creativity, what kind of problem solving, what kind of emotional resilience do they have to look at something that is completely outside these two choices that are placed in front of them?
Bronson Hill: Yeah. Well, that’s I mean, that’s the world, right? It’s the idea that, you know, Steve Jobs had that quote said once and I’m going to paraphrase it. Once you realize that the world is created by people no smarter than you and that you have a choice in the matter, just opens up like you can create whatever you want.
So these tools that we have are like there’s so much creativity you can use. Nate, why don’t you share from a leverage perspective, kind of what you’re getting out of this as well, to hear some feedback thoughts and what you’re getting out of this?
Nate Hambrick: Yeah, well, I think the the speed of innovation and the way that you think is really fascinating. And I was going to ask you, Marissa, because I think the way that you speak about innovation and non-binary choices is pretty unique for the conservative market. Like I think liberals are much more open to exploring it from thousands of different ways.
I’ll speak from experience growing up in a very conservative household. If it if an idea hadn’t been tested and true for 20 to 30 years, we weren’t going to try it, right? And so I find it very fascinating that you do run a very conservative organization and yet you’re so open to take an Elon approach and be like, OK, these are the two choices that exist.
What else is out there? Almost like you’re looking at the stars. Maybe that’s why I created SpaceX.
So I’m curious, how do you balance that running a pretty conservative organization to help people get away from the old tried and true patterns?
Marissa Streit: So my politics are also not a binary choice. And so when people assume all kinds of things about me because I’m labeled conservative, I think they’ll end up finding it quite surprising that, you know, my mind works in a different way. I mostly believe that I’m a conservative because I want to conserve the American dream and the opportunities that this country gives us as Americans, prosperity, liberty, economic freedom, religious freedom, freedom of speech, all of those freedoms. And that is associated with the founders and what they believed 250 years ago when they signed the Declaration of Independence. And so that is why I’m a conservative, because I’m trying to conserve liberty.
This does not mean that I share the same ideas and values with any person who votes Republican necessarily. And I do agree with you that people generally associate conservatives with lack of innovation rather than the conservation of liberty. I think we’re seeing that change a lot now.
I think you’ll find a lot of people who are in the tech industry that share the same values that I have, that simply we want less government. To me, the government is always the problem, is never the solution. And I think for entrepreneurs out there who love to have the freedom of just being shackled off the bureaucrats, I think they have more in common with me as a conservative, again, who wants to conserve liberty rather than, you know, a leftist who simply does not believe in liberty, but they want everybody to be equally worse off, right?
Because it’s all about if it’s about equity, equity is about making it to the same finish line, not starting at the same line. Right. That’s what equity does.
And so that’s what makes me conservative. I just want to conserve the liberty and the opportunity to be able to do whatever it takes. And so that includes, by the way, I believe the mindset that our founders had.
Right. They just wanted to unleash themselves and their human potential. And they rejected King George.
They came to the United States of America. They were will wasn’t the United States of America at that point. It was this land of opportunity that they hope to build a city on the hill.
They didn’t want big government. They didn’t want a king. They’re willing to pay the heavy price and the risk, the risk taking that goes with being an entrepreneur.
Right. They didn’t know that they’re going to have protection. They didn’t know that they’re going to have prosperity.
And so to me, if you think about what it is that we’re trying to conserve as conservatives here in America, is actually that ethos of the founders of being having that willpower, having that stomach, that emotional resilience to take the risk without the government feeding us and clothing us and taking care of us all the time. That is what I’m trying to conserve.
Bronson Hill: So you were friends with Charlie Kirk. I was really touched by his life. Just I’d followed him for maybe a year or two before.
And just the free speech that he modeled and really even to give the other side a voice to speak. I mean, most people don’t do that today in politics, but just the way that he would talk and he’d say, we really have. I mean, and I started like really reflecting on this after his death. We have the greatest country that has ever existed in the history of the world, in my opinion.
I mean, literally, you look at religious freedom and personal prosperity and property rights and all these things that are here that really have never existed, maybe different pieces at different times.
But there’s people that really want to tear down. They want to tear down what we have. And so that’s something that just really got me for a few things.
One is to speak up for my faith and my values and for what I believe in. And I know, you know, you had a piece you were talking about earlier about the idea of, you know, we talk about financial education, all this stuff. We don’t talk about morality.
We don’t talk about the morality piece of it. And of course, you know, our country was found in a lot of these principles that are natural law and biblical, you know, got a lot of the lot of the biblical laws and things. But talk a little bit about the difference and the importance of morality. And how you see it as it being greater than some of these other things is teaching people tools and skills like why is morality. How do we actually teach people to do what’s right?
Marissa Streit: Yeah, well, thank you for thinking about Charlie. Charlie is obviously a very, very close friend of ours. I remember meeting him when he was only 19 years old.
So it’s hard to even imagine life without Charlie in this movement. And it’s upsetting to think about how Charlie was described by the media as some right wing extremist. You see, they can argue with our points.
And so they start with the Ed Hominem attacks and they’d call him all kinds of names. They called me all kinds of names. And they didn’t want to actually find out the truth about his character.
And when you mention Charlie Kirk and you mention morality in the same breath, it’s no surprise to me because that was what he was about. He was inspired by Dennis Prager.
The reason he was so drawn to Dennis Prager was because Dennis Prager, as I call him America’s grandpa, right? He’s all about morality. He always talks about morality first.
And in conjunction with business, if you think about America, what makes America special? So many things make America special, but ultimately what really makes America special is that we are a morality first nation. And you look at our education system, it’s it’s a lying to American people.
It’s telling young Americans that we are not a moral nation because we’ve had our blemishes. And it is true. Right.
We haven’t treated women fairly. We certainly had a very dark period of history with with slavery. Dark period of history that happened all over the world.
And, you know, thank God we’ve become a more perfect union as we’ve moved away from from those dark times. And we’ll still face dark times and we still have dark times today. But with that said, we are the only nation that continuously contemplates morality.
And the fact that we are teaching young Americans that we are not a moral nation is a lie. And it also puts our country in great jeopardy and distress. Because if if you convince the American people, if we convince your children that America is not a moral nation and we and America goes dark, the whole world goes dark.
America is the most moral nation around the world. And I can give you many, many examples of that. Now, it’s not to say that when we’ve had wars, there have been mistakes that have been made.
Human mistakes can be made. Some decisions have been made that were a mistake. But but you judge a country as you judge a person on a whole.
If you judge our country from the last 250 years on a whole, have we been a beacon of light of morality? Have we been a leader for prosperity? Have we been a reason for other countries to look up to us truly as a city on the hill to do better, not perfect, but to do better?
The answer is absolutely yes. If you ask any immigrant who has made it to America, why are you here? Why do you love the United States of America as an immigrant more than a child who was raised in the United States of America?
Why is it? The answer is because they have perspective. Right.
They have seen other places around the world and therefore, if they’re from Cuba, they’re willing to swim. They’re getting sharks to make it to the to the United States of America. If they’re from the Middle East, they’re willing to do whatever it is that they can in order to come here and and gain from this prosperity.
People don’t run away from prosperity. OK, they’re what they run towards prosperity, which is why you see so many people wanting to come to the United States of America. And that is what Charlie was trying to teach.
And that is what we are trying to teach. When you you compare some of the systems of government real quick, you compare America and you compare socialist countries or communist countries. They have courage.
They have sacrifice, as do we. We’re willing to have courage and sacrifice. But the one thing Americans have that other countries don’t have is morality.
And everybody around the world knows that. The problem is young American kids don’t know that. And morality is in everything we do.
Including in the way that we conduct our business.
Nate Hambrick: Yeah, I was going to ask you real quick, because you brought up Charlie. Of all the people I’ve seen online, I think people tried to censor Charlie more than anyone that I’d at least noticed.
And so I wanted to ask you about that, because we do live in a world where censorship, you know, freedom of speech was always just an assumed thing. I didn’t think it would ever change. And now we are censoring that for reasons that people think are justified.
Which do you fear more? Do you fear government censorship more? Algorithmic censorship more?
When you get on TikTok and Instagram and it just feeds you what you already believe in nothing else? Like, how do you think through all of that? And how do you help people understand the realities of that so that they can have a holistic view of America?
Marissa Streit: Charlie was censored because he was effective. And people are OK with censoring, whether it’s coming from big tech companies or from government. They’re OK with it because they have been fed a steady diet that they should be given a safe space.
If you believe that you should never hear ideas that you don’t agree with, if you believe that wards are violence, if they give you a steady diet of propaganda that people who disagree with you are Nazis, then eventually you’re going to start believing it and you’re going to vote your rights of freedom of speech away. And we have seen this in in America in the last few years. And, you know, you look at the UK where somebody tweets something and they literally will go to jail, right?
That sounds so foreign to us, except it won’t be foreign unless we reject it. And how do we reject it? We need to teach young young people starting at a very young age to be uncomfortable with ideas that they may not like.
You remember that old phrase, sticks and stones will break your bones and words will never hurt you. And you don’t hear that anymore. You don’t hear those phrases.
Every dad should say this to their children, right? That is a dad’s job. A dad job is to build a tough young man and sometimes even tough girls.
Right. But especially young man, a young man, you need to tell your boys, you know what, if somebody hurts your feelings, you puff up your chest, you keep your chin up and you say, I don’t agree. Interesting point, but I don’t agree and not fall apart because you heard something that you don’t like.
And that was what Charlie Kirk was trying to do when he went to campuses. Right. He tried to give people another perspective and say to them, you can be uncomfortable with my words, but listen, digest and then make your own opinion.
Yeah, by the way, culture comes from communist Russia and it is part of the communist ways of breaking the true E Plur bassoon of America’s society because Americans still assume that we’re still in the 90s where, you know, we have freedom of speech. And very quickly, you’re seeing communist Marxist propaganda infiltrating into our schools and social media trying to get us to vote our freedoms away out of fear that we’re going to get uncomfortable with words. This is a Marxist propaganda one on one.
Charlie Kirk recognized that. He learned it from Dennis Prager and he tried to fight it and he died fighting for it. And he died defending freedom of speech when he was shot straight in the neck as he was speaking.
He was he was willing to die for freedom of speech. Because freedom of speech is so important for our freedom and our prosperity in this country.
Bronson Hill: It’s so powerful, you know, and that’s I think one thing that was so powerful about Charlie is that he just spoke up even knowing the dangers, knowing what was there. And just as an example, though, I mean, shouldn’t we all be? I was really convicted by that.
I mean, a person of faith and just to be willing to speak up for what I believe and who I am and these values. And even like even defending somebody’s right to speak that I completely disagree with, I think it’s very wrong or maybe even they’re causing harm. But the fact that we have this place where you can speak up and you can do it is so powerful.
There’s a book that came out I think it was around 2005 called The Coddling of the American Mind. I think you’ve probably read Jonathan Haidt. Yeah, it’s incredible.
They basically talked about this idea that, you know, we had used to be like the the campus, the university campus was the testing ground for ideas. And then it became this whole, well, you being here is a threat to my personal safety and I’m triggered. And it was like, but then the defense became I can I can protest and be physically violent and that’s just self-defense.
It kind of switched everything around. So there’s this kind of like calling good evil and calling evil good. And it’s that but talk a little bit, you mentioned this too, about the idea of and I think it’s we’ll kind of go into this and then we’ll have to wrap in a bit.
But talk about capitalism, rejecting socialism. You talked a little bit about some of these Marxist or socialist ideas. Why is it so sneaky that these ideas creep in and people like kind of go along with them?
Like I look in California and a lot of the things that we’re doing are just right. Let’s just let’s just hurt wealthy people. Let’s just take their take their wealth and give it to other people and let’s redistribute and let’s do things that are are really not very smart.
They make it very difficult to start a new business. So let’s really count on the government. Whereas was it like one in four people in California receiving some sort of government assistance?
And let’s make it more and more difficult for people to actually become prosperous.
Marissa Streit: So first of all, I don’t think that the Marxists in our education system or in our media are so sneaky anymore. I actually think they’re quite bold. And I think there are a lot of people who are the majority who can see that this is a problem, but they’re not willing to fight for it.
And we have a massive courage deficit, which is why every time I speak to young men, I say that we need you to be fathers and we need you to raise strong, courageous men. Oftentimes courage does come from fear of God and faith. And so, as Charlie would say, you go to church and find faith so we can have courageous men raising courageous men and speaking against the Marxism in our schools, because, you know, frankly, we have we don’t have enough male leaders teaching young men to fight against against Marxism.
And I think there are a lot of people who are probably listening to this and saying, it’s not that it’s sneaky, I see it, but I don’t know what to do about it or I’m too afraid to fight against it or I don’t want to lose my job or I don’t want somebody to think that I’m, you know, white, Christian, white, Christian nationalist Barbie like Marissa, blah, blah, blah. All the names that they make up about me. Right.
I don’t think that we have a lack of awareness I think we have a lack of courage problem. And why is this happening? This is happening because the way to take America down and to sell big governments, socialism, communism, is to break us apart, to make us hate each other, to make it impossible for us to converse, to make us believe that if we agree with with disagree with each other, it’s words of violence.
And therefore, we need to crawl into our homes and disconnect. The moment you break up E Pluribus Unum from many one, the secret sauce of the American dream, you can find it on every single quarter, on every coin, you can see E Pluribus Unum. That’s the secret sauce of America.
We come from different nations. We have different last names, different skin colors, whatever it is. But when we come here, we become an American and we abide by a covenant, an agreement that we are going to live as Americans and we’re going to follow the Constitution.
We’re going to abide by our amendments. And we, the people as Americans, we are the king, not the government. The government reports to us and this is why we have to vote.
It’s why we have to engage in our civic duty, both the midterms and the primaries and the major elections. Any person who is an American who has the right to vote and is not studying on the issues, is aware of what is happening and actually making the effort to go and vote intelligently is like a fat king that is not doing their job. Right.
And so ultimately, because we are the king and the government reports to us. And so I don’t think the Marxists are sneaky. I think that we have become complacent.
And so, again, I remind everybody, the founders of this country, they were they had every reason to be afraid. They had every reason to not know what their future is going to look like. But what did they have?
They had morality, courage and sacrifice. Same thing if you study World War Two. Think about not that long ago, June 6th, we remembered 82 years since since the invasion of Normandy.
When those young 18 year olds, I just get choked up when I think about it as a mom. Right. Imagine them on the on those ships at Normandy, jumping into those waters.
Many of them didn’t know how to swim. Many of them didn’t know if they’re going to make it. Right.
What did they have? Courage, sacrifice, morality. Are we teaching this to our kids?
Are our men are our men are American men. Do they embody those same traits of courage, sacrifice and morality? Those are that, by the way, the same traits that if you embody and you have, you will become a successful American entrepreneur.
Again, it’s the DNA E Pluribus Unum from many one. It doesn’t matter where you come from. If you abide by the covenant of the American dream, you will become successful in America because that is truly the gift that our founders have given to us.
Are we responsible enough to inherit this responsibility? Not just the gift, but the responsibility to maintain those ideas and reject big government. Big government sounds great in the beginning.
Right. Let’s get handoffs, let’s get them to pay for our health care.
Let’s get them to do all these things for us. But what happens the next generation? The government takes everything from you.
And so are we willing to put in that work of sacrifice in order to really gain from that prosperity that comes with the courage of relying on ourselves, on that self-reliance of truly being the kings of America when the government reports to us and we don’t report into them?
Bronson Hill: Wow, there’s a lot there. Courage, morality, you know, are we raising men that are, you know, are standing out that it’s really convicting. Same thing when I listened to Charlie, that stuff that I would would sense of what am I what am I making a stand in my life for?
And I think it’s that idea without vision, people perish. If I’m not making a stand for something in my life that’s bigger than myself, that’s going to make the world a better place, then I’m just simply existing and I’m really just kind of dying because we were meant to stand up for things that matter. And so, Marissa, I just want to say I’m so grateful for you, for the stand that you’re making for everyone, for us, for our kids, for the world.
And just the way to hear you speak about this is really, really inspiring. I was very inspired today. I’m really grateful.
I know Nate, you know, there’s some good takeaways here and I’m from our audience, I’m sure as well. Marissa, I know you have PragerU, you’ve got the app, you’ve got all kinds of stuff out there. What’s the best way people can follow what you’re doing and be a part of the movement?
Marissa Streit: Yeah, I’m on social media, much to my dismay. So you can find me on Marissa Stride, on X and Instagram and YouTube. But of course there’s a, you follow PragerU.
My final message to all of us as we think about morality first is the reminder that success is not a zero sum game. And Charlie Kirk and I used to say this all the time, we both ran nonprofits and we recognized that as PragerU grows, Turning Point will grow. As Turning Point grew, PragerU grew.
And so oftentimes the socialist will tell you that we all need to have equal results. I will tell you as a capitalist, as an American, that as my friends prosper, I prosper too. And so as we look at each other and each other’s successes, let’s look through the eye of, of gratitude and encouragement, rather through the, the lens of envy and taking people down.
And as we invest in the people around us, I guarantee you the people around us will prosper. As they prosper, so will we and so the rest of our society and our community, and that is truly the American way and antidote to communism socialism, which are based on the very basic human nature of, of envy. It is the opposite of prosperity and it’s the opposite of gratitude.
And it is truly what’s going to hold other countries back, but it won’t hold America back as Americans. We believe that we want everybody to be prosperous around us.
Bronson Hill: I love that. It’s really a win-win, how to create win-win for ourselves, for others, for the world, for everyone. So, well, Marissa, sit tight for one sec.
Nate and I are just going to wrap on this, take the takeaways. Nate, what was your, I mean, a lot of great takeaways here. Amazing message.
I feel like I’m ready to go and go tell my neighbors to, you know, support America and whatnot and, and free speech. And of course, living out our faith, but what, what, for you, what were some of your takeaways?
Nate Hambrick: Yeah, there were a bunch, but the one I’ll focus on is Marissa said something that really stuck with me, that we don’t have an awareness problem. We have a courage problem because one of the questions I was going to ask her that we didn’t have time is, is how do you tell people this is Marxism? This is going to go.
The reality is, is enough people know it’s Marxism. Enough people know this is a problem. We’re really just not doing enough about it, right?
And so that was convicting for me, right? Cause I’ve got two young ones, hopefully someday a lot more than two young ones. It’s my job to make sure they know, and it’s my job to be courageous and stand up with kindness and grace, but stand my ground on these issues.
Cause the reality is the angry people are winning, right? And they’re winning with the worst ideas. How about you, Grazin?
Bronson Hill: Yeah, I was really inspired, obviously thinking about people like Charlie. And I have a friend, Mikey Taylor, who’s the mayor of Thousand Oaks, California, and he’s told me, he’s like, Hey, you know, we need more good people of faith that are making a difference in their communities. He’s like, what if we just had people? And he’s saying, you run for city council or do something.
And it’s something I haven’t really thought about until recently, but I’ve been like, you know, what if we had more people making a difference locally? Just, you know, even non-partisan, just, Hey, what can we do to just make things better? And I think, especially in California, there’s a lot of people that have just pushed things off and said, Oh, it’s just, let’s all move to Texas or you’re in Texas.
But, you know, just like rather than, Hey, no, this is what we’ve got. And how can I, in Pasadena, California, to be a person of courage and faith? How can I do that?
How am I being courageous when those moments come? So I was really inspired. I’m really grateful for this.
And this is a message I encourage all of our audience. If you were inspired by this, please share it. Please reach out to a follow up Gregory.
If you have kids get them on this, there’s their shows on there. There’s all kinds of resources. They teach about capitalism and morality and all these things.
It’s really incredible. So, uh, if you’re, if you’re discouraged about education, follow up, Gregory, you follow groups like that because you’re really going to experience some really powerful things. So, uh, thank you for our audience.
Thanks for being here. We look forward to seeing you on the next episode of the Mailbox Money Show. Appreciate everyone.
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