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ports that this is even a question. Why in the world are people not playing against people of equal ability? When was that okay? Why is it okay that your awkward kid who's not good at sports has to go to a school in which only the gifted physically capable people get to be heroes and they get to be lauded for their accomplishments and they get all the boys and the girls and all that? Why is that f…

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hat this is just a feeling. So I can't prove what I'm gonna say now. It feels as if it's probably just summer vacations but it feels as if the big name opinion pieces people couldn't do it. They're just like seriously you want me to act like he corroborated the thing he didn't mention. I feel like the ones that do the big pieces have a little more pride. It's like I can spin this but I'm not going to just ignore the key detail and say that other key details were corroborated and just lie about it. I think they had to get somebody who is new who would go this far. Again this is pure speculation. I can't read any minds. I don't know what CNN is really doing. It could be just that the bigger guys and bigger women are on vacation so they had to find somebody to fill in. But he hilariously fills in by doing just the most ham-handed job of spinning this in an illegitimate way. He'll probably get a permanent job there. It was so good.

Well it turns out that that was the end of my notes because I thought I had a third page but it turns out that my printer decided all it needed was that little line there so it printed that little line and that's all.

Now have I changed your minds or anything? Nope. I don't change too many minds on here except the Skittles might not be a food group. If you think Skittles is a food group I hope I changed your mind. You agree on the sports. Good. You know part of it is because I played co-ed intramural sports quite a bit and it was just better. It was just better to have a mixed group. If I could have played at the highest level of soccer in college for example I probably wouldn't want anybody on my team who couldn't keep up but that was not the case when I played. When I played soccer with women on the team they kept up with me. Maybe they couldn't keep up with the best male players of the team but they certainly kept up with me.

You know about Hartwick? The tiny college I went to, Hartwick College, recruited European soccer players before that was a big thing. So one year that I was there we had the number one soccer team in the country. Won the country. Tiny little school. That was quite exciting for us.

Should your theory on sports carry over to intelligence in the classroom? Well it does. I mean that's being reversed a little bit but ideally you want people of equal capability to be in the same class don't you? Isn't that obvious? You can't always get that. There's practical reasons why you can't do it but you'd want it if you could get it.

What if music were treated like sports? Well I don't know where that's going.

Don't take criminal questions. Oh how about the interview office in town. You know what, I had a thought this morning. Let me run this by you. So I told you I was thinking of starting like an actual podcast studio maybe. Maybe something in town where people don't have to come to my house. Something small, very small but professional. And maybe something like I could have an audience so I could bring in an audience sometime. But I realized that maybe what I have to do is host debates. I feel like everything has sort of lined up that I'm the only one who can do it. Now I'm not the only one who has the skill. That would be lots of people. But I might be the only one who has the minimum amount of skill and the willingness to do it because there's nobody willing to do it. It doesn't matter how much skill they have. So I don't think I have the highest level skill. I think I have like just enough.

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But now to do this I would have to do it on video though because I don't think I could get people to come where I live. It's just not like in LA where people are going to go there anyway. If you had an office in New York you could get everybody because they're in town anyway. But people are not in my town anyway. So I think I'd have to do a video and I might set it up so there's like three videos.…

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