Hey there, folks.

Welcome to the program.

It is my joy to introduce my Yale classmate, Naomi Wolf.

Naomi, how pathetic that I introduce you that way.

Welcome.

Why is that pathetic?

I introduce you that way.

Because it's just so dumb.

Like, who cares? You know, you and me and Scott Besant, you know, we're sane. And yet we graduated in the Yale class of 1984. What happened to us? I don't know. Something. That's a great question.

It's kind of crazy. I don't know. Actually, you know, when you're produced, was asking me sort of what's on my mind recently, an essay that I haven't written yet, but I think it speaks to the question you just raised. Then it's not an essay. I hate to tell you, but go ahead. I know. It's all done in my mind. How often have you heard people say that?

I finished the book in my head. No, like what I think we were the tail end of the generations who were

taught to ask open-ended questions and pursue evidence wherever it led without an ideological

presumption. So maybe that.

On the other hand, that would suggest that all of our co-generationalists were as open-minded as we are and they're not.

So I guess that...

I think most of the people in the Yale Class of 84 drank the Kool-Aid.

And it was forced-fed to us while we were we were there i mean it was just the zeitgeist

and if you think differently you're a fascist you're whatever you know and uh so but we don't need to

get into that um the good news is we're not fascists and uh and they are or something like that

let's let's i want to talk to you um you know because

you're ethnically jewish i want to talk to you about the anti-semitism that's all around us and

i have to say the headline for me is the general perplexity on what is really going on. I always say and anyone can say it's spiritual.

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