PragerU rising star Amala Ekpunobi on Becoming a Conservative.
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Want to see intellectual honesty personified? Want to witness some courage? Meet Amala Ekpunobi (the “K” is silent). She is a rising star at PragerU, and for good reason. She joins Michele to talk about her transformation from left-wing activist to Thomas Sowell Conservative, and everything that came along with it… including death threats.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to sideline sanity with me, Michelle Tafoy, sponsored by Legacy Precious |
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| 0:10.8 | legacy pm.investments.com. Coming up, are you a fan of Prager You, Prager University? |
| 0:17.3 | I am. I have done their shows. And one of their fastest rising stars joins me next. |
| 0:25.6 | For nearly three decades, she's reported the action from the sidelines. She started very young. She's |
| 0:31.8 | covered the NBA, NFL, Olympics, and the college football and basketball national championships. |
| 0:38.1 | And now, during these insane times in our world, |
| 0:41.7 | Michelle Tofoya thinks we need a serious dose of sanity. |
| 0:46.8 | This is sideline sanity with your host, one of the sanest people on planet Earth. |
| 0:53.3 | Michelle Tofoya. Well, I've long been a fan of |
| 1:01.5 | Dennis Prager, Prager You. I've done one of his five-minute sort of classes online, and I love the man. |
| 1:14.2 | And I respect everything he does and everyone he brings on board. |
| 1:21.3 | And that includes today's guest. Amala Epunobi is a rising star on Prager University. I'm so glad you could join us, Amala. Thank you so much. Oh, thank you so much for having me. It's a pleasure. |
| 1:26.3 | Likewise. I'm going to just cheat here and read from the little bio they put on Prager You. Raised in a far left activist household, 21-year-old Amma Epinobi was once a student organizer for the left. Unanswered questions and a search for the truth led her to a |
| 1:45.6 | complete ideological transformation. So I guess the first thing I want to ask you is what you remember |
| 1:51.6 | about your experience of being raised in what is called a far left activist household. |
| 1:58.9 | Sure. Yeah, I think about this a lot. And I go back in the past retrospectively |
| 2:02.9 | to sort of grapple with where I was politically. But I was raised by a single mother of three. |
| 2:09.3 | She happens to be white. Not that that's important to me, but it does become important to the story. |
| 2:14.3 | And she worked as an organizer for a far left organization and she continues to do so she does |
| 2:21.1 | fundraising for a lot of the leftist movements that you see working in the state of florida right now |
| 2:26.2 | so from a really young age as is a biracial daughter to a white mom she made me really cognizant |
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