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What's up guys? this is Will Witt with PragerU. We're gonna let you guys join in for a second cuz I know this live stream videos it takes you guys a little bit to join in so we're gonna let the audience rise up a little bit right now. Can you hear our counter or is that cray Greg's phone is going off? That's alright or some sort of laptop, but we're really excited to have you guys here today. It is what is today's date. December 12 December twelfth is a very exciting day because Prager U is reaching three billion lifetime views a very very exciting number for us. You know starting about seven years ago as Prager you and you know getting so many small. Views that are now being able to to have three billion views, impacting people all over America. All over the world is a truly amazing thing. so I'm gonna be talking to some of the amazing staff at PragerU who've been able to make this number happen and make everything that happens at Prager U possible. so we're gonna start with Marissa, the CEO of PragerU. We have all the other stuff applying for fragrant for Marissa, she's the CEO so they kinda have to do that. but okay, tell us what you do here. Well. This is a great day for Prager U and Great day for America and the world because we are approaching how many views three billion, three billion views, three billion views. I still remember the day that we just got started and we really start first video and we had I sat there with Dennis Prager who's the President of prayer and Allan Estrin, who's the person who came up with the. Having surgery and we just kind of sat, there was just the three of us at the time and we're like can you imagine if 30000 people watch a Prager you video how amazing that would be and that was in 2011 and several years later here we are you're standing next to me and we're at three billion views. so it's remarkable. It's really such an emotional thing to think about the number of people that were touching and influencing with our content. so if you haven't figured out what do I do here? I'm I washed the dishes. Washer washer and and it takes a lot of dishwashing to reach three billion views but it's okay cuz I did it just kidding. I'm the CEO so I manage the operation and it's it's amazing. It's been an amazing experience and what's your favorite pregnant you video that we put out. Oh my God the videos Okay. so Allan Astron would say that we're not allowed to have a favorite video because every video is like one of our children and we can't have a favorite but since you're. Here I'll say that the man on the streets are my favorite video. Thank you Jessica and that should be everyone. I hope that every staff member says the exact same exactly only man in the Street. What's your favorite thing about working at Prairie the people so there are few people who are involved in making further you happen. We have the troops like you and the 50 something people that work here. then we have the other troops with which are fragrant force members students from around the country and around the world that help share our videos. Those are my favorite too. And then they're of course the troop suppliers our donors who are just remarkable. People also from around the world that send in donations just to keep our operations going so the people who make this happen are my favorite thing about Bragg and so there are lot of people who will be watching this or maybe you haven't donated to PragerU or might not know that we're a nonprofit. Why should people support prayer you right? So we're a 501 C three non-profit. so your donation to Prager U is tax deductible and if you care about the truth if. Truth matters to you if you care about the ideas and values that have made America this great country and you want these ideas to be known to the public. then you can help us by supporting us so that we can make more content so that the public can get more aware better aware of all these principles and ideas and we can't do without you. We can't do it without support perfect. Thank you. Marissa. I appreciate it go this one dirty dishes. Alright good job. Greg What's up Well, I got sick. I can't speak. I'm very I'm sick. So if you guys notice my voice is not as good as it should be, but okay, Craig tell us what you do to pray for you so I am Will Witt fashion adviser as many of you may or may not know and look how well dressed you are today. you're even wearing a fragrant you shirt. I think for the first time ever, so this is very exciting. I'm the chief marketing officer, so my job is to make sure we reach millions and millions of people and billions and billions of views, but we're just getting started. So that's the good news. the left is still winning. They're still reaching more people so we have a lot of work to do and what's your favorite part of the video. My favorite prayer you video. I think it's trophies are for winners by Coby Jones. I have three daughters. One of them was on a soccer team that lost mostly games and she just got her first participation trophy and it was it gave me great pride to tell her she didn't deserve it. So that was that was nice. I love that and why should people support PragerU because we're effective we reached not just reaching a lot of people, but recent survey show that up to 70 percent of our viewers have changed their mind on a recent video after watching so we know how to reach people. we know our videos are changing minds. So with the support of viewers like you, we can continue our impact. so thank you for all who are supporting. Please consider donating today to help us keep our impact up in 2020. Yes, I believe if we did this live stream right there should be a donate link button on our video. So that you can or it's in the comments right right? Okay so you can go on there and obviously I'm an expert in all this stuff you can go on there and donate to Prager U any amount really helped us out. That's all from you. Craig Thank you. so yeah, I appreciate it. I just got Craig sick so I'm really happy about that. but he's got to announce. Alright. who's next. Oh Alex Gimenez. Wow. Amazing Song Hispanic Last name. Shake your hand. Yeah. Well. I'm not gonna get sick. Yeah. that's all you get. But Alex yeah come in here We gotta slide in. Alright. Alex is someone who doesn't take days off of work. He's always working. He has a. As a work ethic that is comparable to even me so he does really good work here at Prager U What do you actually do with Baker? Alright. So I'm the director of design at Prager U and we have a whole team of designers to make all these great social content that you guys can watch and I basically keep pumping out content and creative ideas and what's your favorite thing about that role. my favorite thing is that if you're a designer, you know you can maybe you work all the time and you think people aren't gonna see this stuff you're making maybe some making a difference in the world, but then working. I'm pregnant you. Everything you make it's been seen by millions of people and changing their lives, so it's really good to be able to make art and make design that actually improves the way people live. Do you have a favorite pregnancy video? What can I say? hi too? Okay? Sure, no I never. I never took a horn. You can feel good videos. Alright well, no. I'm not gonna do that. Okay. My two favorite videos are the wise modern art so bad video. I think it's hilarious. I think it strikes true that steal your idea. Well, you'll have to find another one when they have like 300 videos in a new favorite video and I also like the. Preview the YouTube one cuz the animations on that one, I mean the design team doesn't do all the five -minute animations so we have you know these great animators that we contract with and those ones are Super slick. So I really love that video and it's an important issue that you guys should go. Watch about prayer, UV YouTube Thank you appreciate it. Alex little more disease right there. Yeah. you did it all right. Let's see it is it is it time. Okay guys. We're just about to reach three million views and our three billion views. so we're very excited In here and I think they're gonna shoot things on me. Oh, we did it. We did it. Yeah. Whoo. Whoo. Oh, that's fantastic guys. here we go hold on. I don't know if you guys were able to see any of that that we actually did we'll get we'll get Marissa in here to clean all this up now that we've done all this. so hopefully you guys see perfect there you go. That was the best one. So are you trying to do let's get out there? Yeah. let's do it. Yeah there you go. Whoo. Good right now. Wow doing great. Okay Allen smoke. Why don't you tell us about what you do with PragerU where your role is well. My role officially now is executive director of praying for you but I I I like the term founder. It's not on my business card co-founder because I was there. I'm I'm really employee number one number two behind me but other than that we're pretty close. Well. I mean we can debate that. and so what is your favorite burger? Video Impossible impossible. I can't answer that question I I don't have a favorite. I really truly don't. I love every single one equally. That's a good answer and what would be your favorite thing about working with prayer. My favorite thing really is to see what you see every day, which is people sending us Emails. Facebook posts all manner of communication, saying they've seen the videos the senior videos the scene. The fire side chat between the candidates on show and their minds have been opened. They just think a different way. They're leading a better life. and what is what is the three billion views mean to you. It's such a phenomenal. Obviously, it means success what else would it mean? I mean three billion people watching these videos is just a phenomenal thing never could have imagined. I did at the beginning. so I'm looking forward to three billion more say yeah maybe next year. Hopefully if everything goes well, Yeah. Thank you. Allen. Alright. I appreciate. thank you. I gotta move over a little bit. Alright who's next. We're still doing it even though we passed a three billion alright, let's keep going in March. This is March. Yeah. it's much too. That's a Christmas gear. Where can people get this merge store on our website? KTVU dot com. Go to Pray dot com right. Yeah. Mike's Mike's giving him yeah. he knows. Okay. What is your favorite thing about working at PragerU with the position that you this way? That's why I am too tall. I'm sorry. I know I look really short. I'm an average hype man. She's just very tall. I am so what is your position and what's your? Part of what I'm saying. Well, I'm a development associate here at Prager U, So I oversee donations coming in and I also provide customer service to our donors and I think my favorite thing about working here is definitely talking to her dinner and hearing their stories by also love my coworkers. They're very happy hard-working people. so it's a great environment to be in. Thank you. Christina. Thanks appreciate it go to the store in March you everywhere you go. Thank you. We got live the people who kinda stand out so I'm like the only one clapping but don't be too. okay. Yeah. you can clap for yourself. Hi everybody. Laura. What do you do here? I'm a production manager at Prairie View. There's two of us and so I spearhead anything that involves a camera for the most part. So for me personally, I'm responsible for the five -minute videos and then I work with this guy a lot too. Yeah, so basically anything that I do. Laura make sure that goes well and there's so much that goes wrong with what I do the tough job of someone else to do. it does a really good Why work at Prager U versus somewhere else, So my background is from Hollywood. I actually came from the mainstream media and after a while I could not handle being in a place where I was just so surrounded by ideas that I didn't agree with and I had to keep my mouth shut. so at a certain point, I was just like it's time it's time to work with people who share my values and that's why I'm here. Thank you also thank you very much everyone's getting sick today. It's a great thing. Alright, Who's next Devin come on in Devon. Good to see you I don't care sanitizer there you go. Okay So Devon. What do you do here? I am the director of PragerForce, which is our student ambassador program and how many PragerForce members only We've hit the 7000 Mark actually, so we're jumping up so also side note plug If you're student and you wanna be a part of this, this family text PragerForce to 646 zero zero. So we just got a kid from Belgium yesterday right, very, very cool. What is it? 23 billion views, PragerForce and all that together, Yeah, it's huge because our biggest audience are younger people you know under the age of 30 - four and so the fact that I get to work with that main constituency and to see that grow and see their interest in what we're doing grow. your fin groups. you know it's really cool and and that's where we know we're making the biggest impact and they're the ones that are gonna make the biggest impact in the future. So it's really awesome. perfect. Thank you. Devin appreciate it. Remember. if you are a student, you wanna get involved with PragerForce or student ambassador program. You can check it out on Dot com or text, The word PragerForce is 646 zero zero. This guy Mike we're gonna need subtitles and no one can understand the Scottish accent. how are you let's see you gotta understand congratulations. this guy is from Scotland. if you can't tell already by the day and the way it talks. so why why do you work at Fragrant? You're like? Oh, I love it. you know before I got enough to work in a look completely, but I've never really actually loved my job until Southeast configure and just work. Light-minded individuals and doing something positive for the world. it's it's a beautiful thing. and so why should people watching support for? I mean for the kids you know it's a future generation is that it's there's so many of these young students and young children and adult animated by off TV, the media colleges, and we got even back from that. That's what happened to me. Thanks Mike, Of course next week. They will get sick man there you go. You got the tap on picture. What is it like working at Prager and what did you do here? What do I do? I am the director of donor relations and so what I do is I basically reach out to get people to donate money to our cause and so and part of that is talking to many of you who are watching it now and watching you and watching some of the live videos and you like. I love I love everything about it. there's a lot of a lot of things that I like about it. one you get to come to work when and and be around people who share your values and that's a really good thing. It kinda reinforces the reason why we work here and why we do what we do but another thing is that we're we're very persuasive and what we do. a lot of people think that to change the future generations such as your generation in my generation that they have to go to politicians. When politicians aren't really that good and persuading other politicians are not really good at persuading people in their own party. We are the ones who are going to be effective in persuading the people so when they get into positions of power and influence. Have a firm grounding on the basics of conservatism or the American value system right actually changing the culture. Absolutely you're favorite burger you video well, I'm I'm a little biased. I like who's who are the racist primarily because I was in it but I don't really have a favorite. I don't really have a favorite video. I think we we have a lot of good good videos that are very very persuasive but outside of my personal bias, I think the one about the civil war and slavery was a very very effective video. I love them. Yeah. Thank you. Derek. Absolutely appreciate it. Absolutely. Oh. I'm in here guy. Alright guys. this is this is the last one alright well usually save the best for last this is Alex he is what are we gonna say? do I say what I say I say what you're saying. Alex is my producer, cameraman editor friend. we do a lot together so why don't you tell them what we do what we do. we travel the country talking to you guys going Main Street we got a for colleges around the country. We're just asking questions doing two things giving speeches mostly mostly things. They have a lot of fun. What is it that you love most about working out for you just meeting all the people not only just the people here that work here, but actually going out and and changing minds, you know and the people that we meet out whether we're at a rally. We're on a College campus. You know they come up to us and say, hey you guys. your video has really changed my life. They changed the life of my family and my friends. That's just hearing this is really really cool. So do you have a favorite video that you've made I've made. Our videos, Yeah, the vegan one was fun. Yeah. That was that was fun. You're wearing like a bull. Yeah. There's just a lot of cool people. So do you wanna tell em a little bit about the mini documentary? They're working on? Yeah. So we're doing a mini dock. it's about Texas versus California. I'm native from Texas, just talking about the the government. How this the comparison between California and Texas, the quality of life as far as people individuals as far as businesses homelessness problem that's happening just stuff like that. but it's gonna be great, hopefully coming out in 2020 early 2020 I'm excited for you guys to watch that. so yeah, we're pumped. so yeah we got two of us working on. That's gonna be great. We've never made a documentary or anything like that before so doing that is really exciting. Alex. Thanks Mike Go Buy a Christmas tree after this together so that's it okay guys. I just wanna say before we're gonna we're gonna wrap this up with my stone frame. good just before we wrap this up with all you guys. Thank you so much for everything for watching the videos for your continued support for sharing our videos out there. Prager U is changing hearts and minds. Cross the world and in 2020 we wanna do even more. We're hoping that in 2020, we got three billion more views that would be an amazing thing. if we're able to do something like that, we have so much planned and so much for you guys to look forward to make sure that you are following our page. You are subscribe to us on all social media platforms you donate to us so we can keep our videos free and we'll see you guys in the next video. I'm Will Witt. Thank you guys for watching.











