#390 Marissa Streit - Education In The USA Is Being Weaponised
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🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Marissa Streit is the CEO of PragerU, a conservative media organisation and education platform. Marissa shares her experiences growing up in Israel, serving in the military, and returning to the United States to pursue a career in education. Zuby and Marissa dig into concerns about the American education system and how historical context shapes learning. The conversation explores the myth of a perfectly rational society, the importance of ethical agreements, and the role education plays in cultivating values. Marissa also recounts her journey to PragerU and explains how she balances family life with the challenges of leading a fast-growing organisation.
Timestamps:
(00:00) Introduction
(02:50) Growing Up in Israel
(07:08) Military Service and Its Impact
(14:17) Return to the USA and Career in Education
(16:32) Concerns About American Education System
(23:20) Historical Context and Influence on Education
(37:22) Moral Code and Prosperity in Modern Society
(40:47) The Myth of a Perfect Rational Society
(41:18) The Importance of Moral and Ethical Agreements
(42:24) The Role of Education in Society
(43:49) Journey to PragerU
(50:22) Challenges of Leading a Growing Organisation
(54:26) Balancing Family and Career
(01:02:40) Critique of Modern Feminism
(01:17:39) Future Aspirations/outro
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, ladies and gentlemen? |
| 0:01.7 | Welcome back to Real Talk with Zubi. |
| 0:04.1 | On today's episode, I have got on a very special guest. |
| 0:08.0 | She is the CEO and chief troublemaker at Prager You. |
| 0:13.0 | And this is Marissa Strite. |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:15.0 | Thanks for getting my title right. |
| 0:16.5 | I like it. |
| 0:18.0 | Awesome. |
| 0:19.0 | Marissa, first of all, how are you doing? Thank God. Blessed. |
| 0:22.5 | Yeah. What's been going on? What's new? It just seems like the world seems to get more and more |
| 0:27.7 | insane for those who are paying attention. And in some ways, it seems like the obvious things that |
| 0:34.4 | we should have been doing for a long time are becoming even more obvious, |
| 0:38.3 | like read the Bible, build a family, spend time with people that you love, don't participate |
| 0:46.2 | in confirmation bias, et cetera, like all these things that we've been hearing from our parents |
| 0:50.4 | and our great-great-grandparents all seem to be true. So I think that on a grand |
| 0:58.2 | scale, humanity remains pretty consistent. Awesome. Marissa, when I was thinking of what I wanted |
| 1:07.5 | to talk to you about, I realized that I don't know that much about your life. |
| 1:12.2 | And so I wanted to kind of take it from the top and learn about your journey to being where you are now. |
| 1:20.9 | I didn't want to just talk about all the crazy things going on in the world. |
| 1:23.9 | We can surely get on to that. |
| 1:25.3 | But I'm curious to know about your life. So tell me about |
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