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Welcome back to a numbers game with Ryan Gurdowski.

Happy Monday, everyone.

I hope you all enjoy the last week's of the podcast on immigration.

Jeffrey Epstein, it's definitely been very interesting doing podcasting about politics and elections during a non-election season in the

middle of the summer. There's only so many polls about New York City that I could do regularly

to keep your interest. So I'm trying to get the, expand the conversation until we dig deep

into election season, which is coming up faster than you'd expect.

We're headed towards the end of July, and in the final stretch of the summer, I think a lot of

people are looking at what their summer goals were. Mine was to catch up my summer reading.

And a lot of times people send me books for free from publishers. So I would, you know,

they talk about them on my substack or my Twitter or write about them

or have my podcast.

We're headed to the end of July in the final stretch to achieve your summer goals.

I'm trying to catch my summer reading.

A lot of times publishers will send me free books to promote on either the podcast or my

substack or my social media.

And I spent way too much time reading

this book called Demon Copperhead this year. It was very, very good, but it could have been

cut by 150 pages at least. It was very repetitive towards the end. I'm like, I don't need this.

And then I received a book called Class Matters. Now, I only read parts of it because I rejected the premise entirely, but it was a book about how higher education should weigh economic class over race as a part of the admissions process. The author laments how some schools should take in the top 10% of all high school graduating students, regardless of economic status,

and that would level the playing field for people who aren't financially off.

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