24 Sussex Drive
5/4/20261 hr 19 min
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First 90 secondsDavid Herle· Host0:00
[whimsical music] All right. Greetings, you happily miserable accursed. It's Hurley here with all the members of the political panel present and accounted for. Scott is back with us after his week-long plunge into academia. How was that, Scott?
Scott Reid· Panelist0:26
Oh, that was great fun. It's always an awesome week. You know, you get to spend an incredibly dense period of time. Like, this course is constructed, these poor students, they take an entire course in one week, five days, but it's seven hours a day. At least one of them is for lunch, but basically it's 9 to, 9 to 12 they're with me listening to me, like, talk about my favorite shows from the 1970s. 1 to 4 they're with me talking about, uh, graphic novels created by Frank Miller in the 1980s, and then they go off and, uh, I suppose drink beer and lay down.
David Herle· Host0:57
Right.
Scott Reid· Panelist0:57
But it's, uh, it's a lot of fun. So thank you. David came down, gave a lecture on public opinion research. Folks liked it, and, uh, yeah, it was- Is it open book, or do they have to, like, remember the details of the Bionic Woman, like, on their own? Well, if they can't name, uh, her dog, uh, then it's a flat-out fail. [laughs] Then you just sort of... You'll have to, uh, you, you will have to reapply, and not just the course, but the program. [laughs] So, uh, yeah.
Jordan Leichnitz· Panelist1:22
Scott's just out there lighting fires. [laughs] Really, like, capturing these young minds with the- Right ... relevant issues of our time.
David Herle· Host1:29
Right.
Scott Reid· Panelist1:29
I will