Why do you hate Elmo so much? He's a cringing little milk sawp of a puppet. I like the Jim Henson puppets. They all had an edge. They were funny. Jim Henson was funny. He was a terrible stoner and you could tell that in Sesame Street. We used to sit around when I was a teenager and get stoned

and watch Sesame Street.

I mean, oh, nobody could invent the count who hadn't smoked like eight

pounds of weed.

Dad, welcome to my podcast.

Thanks for the invitation. Good to see you. Good to see you too.

Where are your ugs?

Yeah, these are my backup slippers, man.

They look like backups.

They do, yes, they certainly do.

They're not the ugliest slippers I have though.

This is true.

Okay, last week you talked about, you had a story about how much you were being paid at Harvard and how that was difficult because mom was staying at home and you just weren't being paid very much.

And I wanted you to tell everybody about that.

Well, when I was an assistant professor, so there are three tiers of professor, assistant associate and full, and Full.

And Assistant Professor is the beginning position.

And generally, your tenured, which gives you some job security at Associate.

And then there are a few more perks that come along with full professor.

I started as an assistant professor at Harvard and it wasn't necessary for Harvard to

be particularly competitive on the salary side of things

despite the fact that they have untold billions in their hedge fund.

Harvard's really a hedge fund now by the way and not a university.

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