We start season 4 out with our highest level guest yet! We speak with Robert Schwartz, Vice President for Enrollment and Educational Services at Gettysburg College. Robert talks about what it is like to have the hardest job in academia in one of the strangest times for higher education. He works hard on the quiz as he goes head to head with his rival in the academic division, V.P. Chat, and discusses why you will almost never see him in sneakers or a tie. Finally, we put together a pair of cocktails for him: one for his beloved soccer team and one to help him get through his first summer as VP of Enrollment. Join us for this great beginning to our 4th season of fun!

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Kurt and Ian speak with Steve Gimbel, Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Gettysburg College. We speak to Steve about his work on Jewish Science Philosophers and why physicists don't do philosophy anymore. He also talks about his work on Jewish comedians in America and what draws Jewish Americans to humor. We give him a challenging quiz requiring proofs and learn about how your outfit can make or break you as both a professor and a comedian. Finally, we do our first-ever science experiment in Kurt's Cocktail Corner. Hopefully the results are reproducible!

As part of our "Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning" co-curriculum series, our tour of the UK brings us to Edinburgh, Scotland where we visit the Scotch Malt Whisky Society. We speak to bartender Euan Willis about the Whisky Society and about single malt whiskys more generally. We learn tips for mixing cocktails with these sometimes bullying spirits and taste a few along the way.