Topic: Ivy League

Senator Lindsey Graham reads text messages between FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, which include disparaging remarks about "smelling" Trump support at a Virginia Walmart. The messages reveal their fear for the FBI's "organization" if Trump won and references to Richard Nixon's resignation. The hosts criticize the officials' apparent lack of historical knowledge and blame their "propaganda factory" Ivy League educations.

Helen Trejo contributed a donation in honor of David Arulanis's birthday. She shared observations from her five years in the Ivy League system, including graduate school, noting the global perspective and specific research methodologies taught within elite educational institutions.

A critique of media clips used to portray President Donald Trump as insecure or unintelligent focuses on his comments regarding his Ivy League education and his "best memory." The discussion references the controversy surrounding Trump's phone call to the widow of a soldier killed in Niger, suggesting the media takes these statements out of context to create a specific persona.

A Yale sophomore describes a campus environment dominated by "climate obsessed" and sensitive peers, where expressing humor or dissenting opinions leads to social shaming. The student provides internal documents from the university president regarding name changes for colleges and apologies for perceived microaggressions.

Selin Wong, a 20-year-old who dropped out of high school due to illness, graduated from Castro Valley Adult School and was accepted into Columbia University. The story, highlighted by local Bay Area news, focuses on her induction into the Alameda County Women's Hall of Fame. The hosts critique the maudlin tone of the news report and the promotion of GED paths to Ivy League schools.

An NBC *Rock Center* report examines the widespread use of Adderall as an "academic steroid" at prestigious institutions like Columbia University. The report shows how easily students can obtain prescriptions from campus health services by filling out simple questionnaires. However, the segment's focus on a student arrested in "Operation Ivy League" for selling the drug suggests that the primary concern is illegal distribution rather than the health effects of the drug itself.

A viral clip features a young employee at a Noodles restaurant advocating for a worker-led dictatorship and the abdication of the owner's authority. The hosts attribute this mindset to the "spoiled" upbringing provided by Baby Boomers and the inflated expectations set during the dot-com boom. They also discuss reports that major companies are now exclusively hiring from Ivy League schools, leaving most graduates without career prospects.