A good gag would be that you consistently think we're talking about Columbia

the country throughout this. That wouldn't even be funny the first time and it would get less

funny as the episode goes on. What if the bit is that you're a very racist throughout this but towards

Columbians? I was trying to think of a pun with like Zionism. I can't wait to see how close to the anti-Semitic

gray area you land with this one. Wait wait I have one have one do it do it do it do it do it

Michael? Peter. What do you know about the protests at Columbia University?

All I know is that none of the chance and none of the signs at any of the protests have made me as uncomfortable

as recommending a song by Macklemore. I guess we have to frame this a bit up top because as we are recording we're in the

midst of a surge of student protests at universities across the country.

Protests are about the Israeli attacks on Gaza and more specifically

they are a call on universities to divest from companies and organizations that profit from Israeli war crimes.

It's largely been my opinion and experience that the media coverage of this has been awful. A trash yes.

And in recent days we've gotten a heavy dose of police propaganda with a bunch of cameos

from my boy Eric Adams, who I've decided will be a recurring character on our

podcast. Dude this pot this podcast is undefeated with like predicting moral

panics in advance. Remember we did retail crime and then the actual retailers like retracted their number?

Target actually sent me a gift card as an apology for that one.

And then now it's like we're talking about all this like deranged propaganda and how these

fucking police departments have like more PR people than entire newsrooms and we get a

huge wave of propaganda immediately after these crackdowns.

If Eric Adams gets arrested in the next couple of months,

I do think that we did it.

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