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🗓️ 22 May 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. This is JVL here with my best friends, Sarah Longwell and Tim Miller of the bulwark. |
0:07.5 | Guys, I had wanted to jump right to Christy Knoam doing her con law session at Congress. |
0:15.1 | But Sarah, you had something you wanted to talk about first? |
0:18.2 | Oh, yes. I'm sorry. I just have a quick story to tell. Point of personal |
0:21.1 | privilege. So it is about you, in fact. So, so, so, so, so. Now I'm interested. I was going to start |
0:28.7 | looking at Twitter. Now I'm so glad. So this is, it starts with it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a |
0:33.9 | sad a little bit. Um, so a while ago, I had a beloved teacher that passed away. |
0:41.8 | And but it was a few years ago and they just had a memorial service. |
0:45.8 | And so I went to my hometown. |
0:46.9 | And I got to see a bunch of my old teachers there. |
0:50.6 | And this particular teacher meant a great deal to me because... |
0:55.0 | Tim's like, where do I come in? Yeah, I'll tell you. I'll tell you. It's coming. And people |
0:59.3 | just, it's coming. So he met a great deal to me because he taught this after school philosophy |
1:06.9 | seminar. So, you know, he's trying to make me read Plato's Republic when I'm in the ninth grade. |
1:11.4 | And I used to split my time between basketball practice and this philosophy seminar because I liked it so much. |
1:16.6 | And this guy, my junior year says, hey, you know, you may never have heard of this school, |
1:21.5 | but there's this place where you could go and you could do, you know, the English that you want to do or the political science and also play all your sports. |
1:29.4 | And he said it's a place called Kenyan College. It's where I went. And guy changes my life because |
1:33.9 | I've never heard of Kenyon College. I've no idea what he's talking about. But we go visit it. |
1:37.8 | It's where I end up going to college. And so, you know, there's like only a few stories that people always ask you. They're like, where'd you go to college? |
1:49.2 | How'd you meet your spouse? Whatever. And so I tell the story about him all the time when I'm telling people why I went to Kenyon because it's not always a school people have heard of. |
1:52.7 | Anyway, so I'm at this memorial service and his wife was the school librarian. And I was, you know, |
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