Welcome to the Eric Metaxus show.

I shouldn't tell you this, but Eric hired someone who sounds just like him to host today's show.

But since I'm the announcer, they told me, so I'm telling you, don't be fooled.

The real Eric's in jail.

Hey there, folks.

It is Monday, September 22nd.

Today, I'm flying home from Phoenix, where I was at the Charlie Kirk Memorial. I'll be

talking about that on tomorrow's program. But today, we've got something kind of special here.

Here is the conversation, Vody Balcom, Charlie Kirk, and me. God bless you. We have the cycle of

mainly tied together of this public pressure, this idea that you have to go to college to

succeed, and let me just talk about some of the numbers really quickly. 59% of kids that go to

college graduate, 41% of the kids that go to college drop out. 41% of the kids that go to college drop out.

41% of the kids that go to college drop out.

41%.

They exit with debt, a damaged self-esteem and confidence, very little to no direction,

and they make perfect revolutionaries for the future because they're in this kind of financial purgatory.

And the ones that do graduate,

we send them to inner cities to go rent, not own. When you don't own anything, you're far less

likely to want to conserve anything. And then we tell them, whatever you do, don't get married,

don't have kids, go become a cog in the corporate machine. And then they become early 30-something

people earning $120,000 a year, not accumulating really any of that capital, by the way, because they're spending it, spending it, spending it, spending it on short-term gratification or rental expenses, and we wonder why all of a sudden they want to uproot the entire system. They have nothing worth, they have nothing they want to conserve. They don't own anything. They're not paying a principal of any mortgage. They don't have kids. They're not married. And all of that originates at this one cultural institution that we have wrongly platformed in America, which is higher education. There's some great colleges out there. Hillsdale's one of them. You know, Eric, you and I have done some work at Liberty. There's some great schools. They're in the vast 1% of 1% in the nation. And by the way, you want to talk about where this is at its

worst, go to the seminaries across America. Holy moly. Go to Hope College. Go to Wheaton.

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