PragerU made a BREADTUBE DOCUMENTARY?

[00:00:01]It's been a long time coming, but PragerU is basically dead. It has about 3 million subscribers, but all their latest videos barely crack a couple thousand views. Look look at this. 6 hours ago, 1,000 views, 10,000 views. My livestream channel that you're on right now gets more views than PragerU. The only reason they get more views is because they pay for views. So, this has 1 million views, but then you look at the comments and it's 94 comments. There is no organic interaction with PragerU.

[00:00:26]The Gravelteens got what they wanted at the end of the day because Prager U did end up dying. So, I learned from a Bad Empanada clip that there is in fact a PragerU movie. And it's not even a movie, it's a documentary. I hate PragerU short documentary. And I'm like, wait, no way. I've never heard of this because of how far PragerU has fallen off. And so, I wanted to watch it. Maybe I'll log it onto Letterboxd after this.

[00:00:51]This documentary is supposedly a spoof or parody of different YouTubers that would respond to PragerU. And ironically enough, didn't Hakeem literally just make a response video to PragerU?

[00:01:01]>> [laughter] >> I don't know why Hakeem did this video.

[00:01:03]He did a response video to PragerU 3 days ago and I'm just like, dude, are they relevant anymore? Hakeem is just like that one meme of Obama going up to that starved cow with buckets ready to milk it.

[00:01:14]>> [laughter] >> I don't even know if the PragerU response video industrial complex is working anymore. That's enough about Hakeem's latest PragerU response video.

[00:01:22]Let's get back and watch this PragerU documentary.

[00:01:25]>> You call yourself a journalist?

[00:01:26]Come on, Alden, get your crap together.

[00:01:30]Uh inside No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no.

[00:01:32]Take that. No, that's stupid.

[00:01:34]Come on, think.

[00:01:35]>> This is the life of a BreadTuber who's trying to farm PragerU for content.

[00:01:40]>> I know what you're thinking. Alden, how did it come to this?

[00:01:45]Nah, what the heck? It's easier just to show you.

[00:01:48]>> Title drop. I feel like PragerU is making this documentary in response to the Gravelteens when they tried to do their little Gravel Institute stick and then that kind of flopped. I feel like this is kind of a dig at them, but also at the end of the day both the Gravelle Institute and PragerU are kind of irrelevant. Once again, this has 1.6 million views, but 197 comments. There's no real traffic to this documentary.

[00:02:09]They basically just paid to have it placed as an ad.

[00:02:11]>> know the world's gone crazy.

[00:02:13]But man, conservatives, why don't they see that they're on the wrong side of history?

[00:02:18]I've got to expose them for their lies.

[00:02:21]>> [laughter] >> This is awesome. I feel like this is unironically capturing the life of a breadtuber who's like, "I want to break out on breadtube. Let me do an exposé on PragerU." Even though there's a trillion videos already on PragerU.

[00:02:33]>> That's not to say it's honest work.

[00:02:35]>> As much as I'm dunking on the breadtuber types, it's honest work. Respect to the grind.

[00:02:40]>> Who do I start with?

[00:02:42]Newsmax, Daily Wire, Breitbart. Man, low-hanging fruit.

[00:02:47]Hmm, PragerU.

[00:02:50]>> [laughter] >> Can't even pronounce PragerU. I love that. I think the bigger thing is you would see PragerU and like, "Wait, is this a real university?" And like, "Nope, it's a fake university."

[00:02:57]>> What are the real journalists saying?

[00:02:59]>> Florida will allow PragerU materials >> Oh, PragerU.

[00:03:04]>> So, there's two different problems here.

[00:03:05]Number one, PragerU is funded completely by right-wing billionaires.

[00:03:08]>> Right-wing billionaires?

[00:03:11]>> They're saying that things sarcastically. PragerU is funded by right-wing billionaires? They're just saying it sarcastically as if it'll get rid of the fact that yeah, they actually are funded by Koch brother money. They literally receive millions and millions of dollars in oil baron money. You can't just dismiss that by saying, "Huh, it's stupid wokies."

[00:03:28]>> known for spreading misinformation.

[00:03:29]>> PragerU, which of course is not an actual accredited educational institution.

[00:03:33]>> It's not a university.

[00:03:34]>> Not a real university.

[00:03:35]>> I love how they're playing a compilation of people completely dunking on them.

[00:03:39]This is the best self-own I have ever seen. It's a compilation of saying PragerU is not a real university.

[00:03:46]>> Yeah, sure. I'll just talk to them.

[00:03:49]Hmm.

[00:03:53]>> Whose research process going on LinkedIn and messaging these people?

[00:03:56]>> I know I don't talk to you all the time, but please help me, Barack Obama.

[00:04:00]>> Please help me, Barack Obamna. Please help me, Barack Obama.

[00:04:03]>> Follow me this way, have a seat, and I'll go grab that for you.

[00:04:05]>> Thank you.

[00:04:05]>> Of course.

[00:04:06]>> Well, she seems friendly.

[00:04:08]>> The 20th century was the most murderous century in recorded history. And who did all this killing? Big governments.

[00:04:15]>> No way they're playing a PragerU video and saying the most murderous ideology is big governments. Woo. I was expecting Dennis Prager to be something about communism, communism killed the most people, but it is slightly refreshing to see him blame big government in general.

[00:04:29]>> The right fears big government. The left fears big business.

[00:04:33]>> In what sense? The right always loves bootlicking their cops, loves bootlicking the military. The only way they fear big government is any sort of small bits of regulation or social welfare.

[00:04:42]>> Coca-Cola can't break into your house or confiscate your wealth.

[00:04:45]>> Dude, you're really going to cite Coca-Cola as being a benign corporation as if they also don't use a [ __ ] ton of slave labor. They're also in a target for BDS because of their support for the ongoing apartheid and genocide in Palestine. Coca-Cola would never do anyone harm, but big government is the real threat. When you think about it, the government can break into your house, but private businesses and corporations like Palantir, they're just your friendly neighborhood corporation.

[00:05:07]They would never do something like that to you.

[00:05:09]>> [laughter] >> That actually kind of made sense.

[00:05:12]>> No way they're making the guy watch PragerU videos and get convinced by it.

[00:05:17]This is amazing.

[00:05:18]>> Thanks, Alan. Appreciate your time.

[00:05:20]Sure. Happy to be here.

[00:05:22]>> Uh okay.

[00:05:24]All right, let's let's >> [laughter] >> Why is this like backrooms horror movie?

[00:05:28]They're doing the VHS horror movie ass thing. Pretty soon Alden's going to be breaking through and he's going to be lost in the PragerU backrooms.

[00:05:34]>> Can you give me kind of an explanation, or the CliffNotes, if you will, on why you started this media company?

[00:05:39]>> It started because I was the producer of the Dennis Prager radio show.

[00:05:44]And I had a frustration, and the frustration was we weren't reaching young people. So, the first inkling of idea was how do how do we get Dennis to talk to young people?

[00:05:53]>> I do not want a 60-year-old man talking to young people. How young are we talking about, okay? Because they actually do have a PragerU kids thing where they're saying that Christopher Columbus and slavery wasn't that bad.

[00:06:05]>> Slavery is as old as time and has taken place in every corner of the world, [music] even amongst the people I just left. Being taken as a slave is better than being killed, no? Before you judge, you must ask yourself, >> [music] >> what did the culture and society of the time treat as no big deal?

[00:06:24]>> I do not want my Dennis Prager talking to my kids, man.

[00:06:26]>> [laughter] >> You were once very much against PragerU and now you find yourself here working for PragerU. What happened?

[00:06:33]>> No way. They found a token black conservative who's going to defend PragerU. This is awesome.

[00:06:38]>> might think it's a racist organization or bigoted. I tried to look into it and one, there's no racism here. There's no >> [laughter] >> There's no racism here. Ah.

[00:06:48]>> I mean, funny enough, I was basically in your position like 3 to 5 years ago.

[00:06:51]>> I still can't believe they pay this guy enough money that he went from a pro-BLM protester to just sitting at PragerU and doing his little black conservative stick of, you know, as a black guy, there actually is no racism here.

[00:07:03]>> [laughter] >> Anyway, my check is cashing in. If you'll excuse me, I need to leave.

[00:07:06]>> I'm kind of see that you feel like you're walking down that same path, too, but I won't rush you down the process, but >> This is our political journey. This is all of our political journeys. When we all got older, we all learned and realized PragerU kids was actually extremely correct.

[00:07:19]>> The true mission of PragerU was to try to just help people live a better life.

[00:07:24]That's all we want to do.

[00:07:25]>> How generic can you be, dude? You're a propaganda outlet funded by oil barons.

[00:07:29]But, we just want to help people naturally build a better life.

[00:07:32]>> The interviews didn't go as planned. So, I called the critics who wrote those pieces trashing PragerU.

[00:07:36]>> My name is Alden. I am writing a little article about uh PragerU. Hi. I was wondering if you guys could got to some questions about an article you guys published a few months ago.

[00:07:42]>> I got to beg them for facts.

[00:07:43]>> Let's go.

[00:07:43]>> Access to their insight into whatever PragerU truly is. Anything I could use to bring this company down.

[00:07:48]>> You said that PragerU was anti-Semitic.

[00:07:50]Where did you get that research and can you send it to me?

[00:07:52]>> Here at White House Correspondents Dinner, it's Barbie over here.

[00:07:53]>> They are so mad when people make videos about them. They just took this random girl's Instagram reel and shoved it in their documentary. I bet you there's a PragerU group chat and they're all malding at all the different Instagram reels and TikToks people are making about them and they're like, "We're going to own these people by putting them in a documentary and showing them how foolish they are."

[00:08:11]>> What am I missing? Who else could I talk to? Alan, Marissa, Jill, Xavier, they all put on a nice show for me. I'll give them that much. But I know they're hiding something. I need to talk to someone who's seen PragerU from the inside but isn't >> No. NO. WHY? WHY are we talking to Dave Rubin? I love how we're looking at all these washed-up conservative commentators. Do you all remember when BreadTubers used to make a bajillion videos about PragerU, about Dennis Prager, about Dave Rubin? And now they've just completely fallen off and have become totally irrelevant. What is he even still doing here, man? I forgot he completely existed.

[00:08:43]>> You were progressive once, like a real one. Like Young Turks progressive.

[00:08:46]>> is Dave Rubin. I am the newest host here on The Young Turks network.

[00:08:50]>> One of the funniest Dave Rubin bits, he was trying to move Ben Shapiro on LGBT rights because Dave Rubin is gay and Ben Shapiro was like, "Yeah, I still wouldn't attend your wedding, man."

[00:09:00]>> [laughter] >> you bake Rubin a wedding cake.

[00:09:03]Okay, so I mean, my answer is >> Well, I'm married already.

[00:09:06]>> Right. He's He's married already.

[00:09:07]>> But an anniversary I It was my anniversary last week. An an anniversary cake would have been nice.

[00:09:11]>> Right. So I So the answer is no. And the reason I won't is because as a religious Jew, I I do not participate in activities that I believe are sinful.

[00:09:21]>> Look, I was a progressive. I mean, that is it's recorded, it's documented, it's on the internet. And then a few things happened. One of them actually was I had uh Dennis Prager on my show and Dennis and I disagreed about a lot of stuff.

[00:09:31]But what was interesting was that Dennis was smiling the whole time. He was very warm and welcoming. And immediately when the show ended >> Bro, imagine becoming a conservative because Dennis Prager smiled at you.

[00:09:41]>> [laughter] >> What the [ __ ] I do not want this man talking to my kids or smiling at me, okay?

[00:09:46]>> I've worked with him. Are you honestly proud of the work you've done with him?

[00:09:48]Yeah, I'm I'm proud of the work, man.

[00:09:49]You know, I did the Why I Left the Left video with them, which I think is the biggest one.

[00:09:52]>> Why I Left the Left? I love the Why I Left the Left grift. Like it's it's so good. It's instant free cash.

[00:09:58]>> If I told you that I was starting to doubt everything I've ever believed in.

[00:10:01]What would you say to me?

[00:10:04]>> Bro, how much of an NPC do you have to be to watch a PragerU video and then become a conservative?

[00:10:09]>> I mean, Owen, I I hate to tell you this, but you're just like me. A lot of what you're saying here, a lot of the questions, the the sort of dancing around what I think you already suspect, I mean, that's me 10 years ago, but I I I'm telling you, man, just keep following the path. You're going to be just fine.

[00:10:18]>> Why is this so queer-coded, guys? You're on the right path. Just follow your heart. Dave Rubin is quite literally gay, too. There's something about a closet narrative. I don't know. I'm not one of those bread tube media critics type, but I'm just like, I'm getting that vibe.

[00:10:31]>> Perhaps that's what PragerU's been trying to encourage all along. Nice and I guess what I'm saying is are you hiring?

[00:10:37]>> No way, he got bought off. The failing journalist got bought off by PragerU. I mean, kind of a predictable ending, but you know.

[00:10:45]>> [music] >> I don't hate PragerU. This is all Let me find it on Letterboxd. I really hope this is on Letterboxd right now. No.

[00:10:54]No, no, no, no, no. It's not on Letterboxd, guys. Can someone on Letterboxd add it to the database so we can start rating it? It needs to be on the box office right alongside Christopher Nolan's Odyssey. Please, Letterboxd, if you're watching, if anyone from Letterboxd is watching this, please add it on your database and I will rate it. Five stars. It'll be one of my favorite films.

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