Choosing Replacement Hosts
I suggest that when one of you (Krystal or Saagar) is absent, that the absent individual should choose his or her replacement. I believe that would help maintain the tension ( Right<->Left ) that is an important feature of your excellent show. When Saagar is replaced by Kyle or Krystal by Marshall, the show becomes more purely right or left oriented and much less interesting. Thanks for a great show.
Corporate America vs Reconciliation Package
Hey Krystal and Saagar. I hope you’re both well. I’d love for you both to go down the rabbit hole on major corporate elites actively blocking the Reconciliation Bill whilst pretending to support Climate Change initiatives. Here’s an excellent article on this topic: https://grist.org/accountability/corporations-talk-green-but-helping-derail-major-climate-bill/amp/ Thanks, Ruben Northern California
College Enrollment Rates for Men
I was listening to Saagar's monologue from yesterday and I couldn't help but ask if the decline in men enrolling in college had something more to do with the booming tech industry and enrollment in bootcamps or other alternative schools? A coding bootcamp for example can cost around $10,000 and last 6 months with employment rates between 74% to as high as 90% according to https://careerkarma.com/blog/coding-bootcamp-job-placement/. Programming jobs are a predominantly male-dominated industry and the demand for programmers is extremely high right now with the salary cap being essentially unlimited for talented coders. This is just one example but I'd really like to know how you see the education industry changing as a whole as a bigger picture question. I personally think that anything that doesn't require an in-person lab could be done online at a much faster rate and a fraction of the cost (many students watch lectures/informational videos at 2x speed and I tend to learn better doing it this way similar to those speed reading exercises you see). In addition to this, most companies are actually dropping the need for a college degree. Just do a quick Google search and you'll see how many large companies no longer require it or require some sort of "equivalent" of which bootcamp certificates are now becoming a norm in many cases. I personally see a traditional college education as a bubble that is soon to pop and come crumbling down, save for the top-tier schools (maybe). What do you think? Thanks, A loyal BP fan