Hi, it's Saturday. It's the Saturday show when we bring you one from the week and one from

the vault. We violate this so often. Today we're going to bring you one from the week, my spiel

on the Long Island Railroad versus the, I can't even say it, Lurr. New York Times telling us some

people call the Long Island Railroad the Lur.

They don't.

I expose it.

I also had on my substack, the video version of this, which, you know, you can just see my facial expressions.

Turns out I wasn't kidding.

It was quite upset.

Go to Mike Peska.substack.com for video versions of me getting upset and saying all the stops between

Lindbrook and Babylon on the Babylon branch. Of course, everyone's favorite, Mass. Pekle, Mass.

Peoples Park, I'madivodeville, Kopeig, Lyndon Hurst, and Babylon. Then I'm going to give you a portion

of the interview with David Oppenheimer that didn't air. Part one of the interview was

him talking about the history of diversity, him talking about his evidence that diversity really

works. He says the science is settled. Part two was me pushing back, maybe a little, I'm not going to

say tendentiously. some of my pushback

could have been shorter.

I bet if you timed how much I talked and how much he talked was about even, and that's bad.

That's bad from an interviewing perspective.

But I did have to push back on his assertion that the power and evidence for diversity is just the same as it is for the climate being

affected by carbon gases. It is not. And then I did ask him this one question that we extracted

from the main interview, but I just wanted to play now because I was in retrospect and thinking

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