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Back to episode — Episode 2674 CWSA 11/29/24

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ate. Racism is worse. They have exactly the same percentage of Black enrollment and they got absolutely nothing out of it except people feeling bad about each other. So that's what they got for $250 million. Hey, does anybody know how they could have saved $250 million? Is there anything they could have done? Anybody they could have asked? Hey, we just need your advice. Should we spend $250 milli…

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orld in terms of spending and how much attention they gave it looks like they're talking about just getting rid of it entirely. Everything's going my way.

All right. Meanwhile, according to The Hill, America's opinion of the Republican Party is on the rise and America's opinion of the Democrats is on the decline. Why? Well I don't know, but in the poll 45% of Americans said they feel favorable toward the Republicans. Now still under 50%, so it's not the best in the world, but 45%. How is that compared to how people feel about Democrats? Oh, not so well. So GOP went — who said they felt unfavorable? So both the GOP went down a little bit but it's still bigger than the Democrats. So Democrats are 39% had a good feeling about their party and more Republicans like their party. That makes sense. I mean nobody's surprised by that, right?

Joe Rogan made a little news again as he does. You know, I'll tell you the thing about Joe Rogan that is the least appreciated is the mistakes he doesn't make. So you know how the dog not barking is the one you don't notice. The mistakes that could easily be made that Joe Rogan doesn't make, it's kind of impressive. I'm more and more of the opinion that Joe Rogan is just one of the smartest people we've ever seen in the public sphere. But part of wha

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t makes him smart is he doesn't act smart. Like he doesn't rub it in your face or wear a robe or something. He just lives his life. But if you sort of follow him for years as I have and many of you have, where are all the dumb things? Have you noticed there's no dumb things? Like everybody who talks that much to that many people, they're going to have some dumb stuff in their catalog, right? The d…

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