Hello, Andrew Day.

Hey, Bob.

Happy Earthling Day.

And happy Earthling Day to you, Andrew.

Um, should we explain what we're doing?

Are people slowly growing accustomed to the fact that on many, if not most Fridays,

Earthling Unplugged appears in the podcast feed and on YouTube and is, uh, kind of a discussion of the Earthling Unplugged appears in the podcast feed and on YouTube and is kind of a discussion of the Earthling to Friday edition,

non-zero newsletter and riffing, random riffing.

That's right.

And on this occasion, I haven't even read the final draft of your lead item.

So maybe that'll give me a chance to kind of probe the argument and

see what it's all about. You can interrogate me. Like the way Congresswoman, Elise, what's her

name, Stefanik, interrogated those college presidents? You're going to have to fill me in on this controversy.

I've kind of avoided even diving into this one.

So I'd be curious to hear, though.

Okay.

Well, as we'll see, that's relevant to my lead piece, unless I cut it between now and then,

which might be a good idea since,

as usual,

the lead is perhaps longer than it should be.

So,

yeah,

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