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Welcome to Straight Wide American Jesus.

My name is Brad O'Nishi or shows hosted in partnership with the Cap Center at UCSB.

I'm coming to you today alone.

My co-host Dan Miller is out today on a much-earned day off.

It might be a little bit of a shorter weekly roundup than normal, but got a lot to talk about.

Before we do that, I have some housekeeping to do for our show.

I have kind of a set of big announcements and I just want to share those with you.

As those of you who listen to the show know, I have been on faculty at Skidmore College for the last five years.

Recently, I made the decision to leave my position there.

I am on a one-year leave of absence because that's what I chose.

But all signs point to me basically leaving my position at Skidmore.

And there's a number of reasons for that.

As with any job, there are sometimes things that push you out the door, but there's also things that pull you out of the door.

And for me, one of them is basically very happy.

My wife is expecting our first child, which is really amazing.

And we're super excited about.

And her career is also just sort of blossoming out here in California.

And we have prioritized my career for a long time.

And we just both agree that it's time to kind of prioritize hers.

And so if you're going to be a cis heterosexual dude in this economy, in this time, and call yourself something along the lines of a feminist, or call yourself a feminist, then you have to walk the walk.

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