Hello, Heaton here. We use some adult language in today's episode, particularly when we're getting

into rap lyrics and some stuff involving Bob Sagitt. So if you've got kids in the car, just

be aware that we're going to cover some adult stuff. Enjoy. Hello, and welcome to the political orphanage, a home for plucky misfits and problem solvers.

I'm your host, Andrew Heaton.

And today, several of my comedian friends will be rejoining me for a roundtable discussion, including what is the value of a college degree and is it a good idea or a bad idea for universities to prune back exotic classes in favor of more practical ones?

We'll talk about free speech and the police via the cultural phenom that is afro-man.

If somehow you don't know, don't worry, we'll explain.

And the rise and fall, or at least

interesting trajectory of the writer Lindy West and what that says about wokeness and millennial

feminism. Let's jump in. Welcome back to a roundtable discussion of the world's smartest podcast network. My dear friends and also podcasting allies, we have reconvened to discuss a number of pertinent and interesting, excuse me, interesting stories for you. Welcome back, Michael Ira Kaplan. It's good to be back. How are you doing? Good, good. Dr. Andrea Jonesoy. Hello, fellow doctors, smartest people. And the very funny Turner Sparks. Hello, Turner. This is the biggest thing since the Oasis reunion. I will tell you that much. Getting us all back together. Well, and Spice Girls 30 is apparently not happening or something. I saw it on Reddit for one second. So this is going to replace that as well. Good. All right. This will be, this will fill the gaping hole in our hearts. Why don't we start with college? Kaplan, you had sent this story to us. What, what is the story? And why is it pertinent? I don't follow the news that closely, but when my alma mater's involved, I noticed. So I went to Syracuse University. The Harvard of upstate New York, I think. Maybe that's Cornell. I'm not sure. But I think it might be Cornell. It might be Cornell. We're like the Harvard of Syracuse, New York. That's right. Syracuse University. We're the Yale of, well, Lamoine College is that. But anyway, they made the newspaper this week, which is exciting for us. We made the New York Times. Big story that they're cutting 93 of their programs out of 460. That's like about 20% if you do the math. Syracuse kids can't do that math, but I'll do it for them. I was a major, I'll just say this right now. I was a television radio film major at Syracuse because that's considered very practical. As you see, it's really helped my career. Yeah. It's very, but a lot of people do that. They go to the Newhouse School of Communications, things. They're not cutting that, are they? No, no, no, no, no. They're not cutting things. A few examples include ceramics, Italian, metal smithing

which I didn't know

was a major

jewelry design

which I didn't know

was a major

their

controversial one

they wanted to cut

African American

studies people got a little mad

so now they're

well only

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