ZPupp's home from college!

Timecodes and topics:

0:00 Nina is back from Vassar

2:08 Violin, double majoring, and choosing Vassar over NYU

4:49 Watching her concert and friends at college

7:01 Poughkeepsie, New York City, and violin duets

9:00 Dining halls, the bagel place, and the campus petting zoo

12:55 The Mitch the cat 1

4:50 Professors’ fits and the jean jacket comeback

17:34 Cocteau Twins and whether the Mitch is fat

19:23 What Nina misses from home, and San Francisco tech bros

21:37 Dining hall food and the freshman 15

24:03 Drop-off night and Professor Navega

25:55 Affluent classmates, parties, and Halloween weekend

28:41 What Nina thinks of the awakening stuff

30:45 Crying at drop-off and Halloween costumes

33:17 Is college worth it in the age of AI

34:47 Side hustles, Donald Hoffman, and the homunculus

37:00 Did the kids wake up too

40:30 Watching Nina grow up on the channel

41:48 The stumbling block of teaching what you just learned

42:35 The Gita, Zoroastrian prayers, and Zubin’s childhood religion

46:12 Spirituality as “just this”

47:24 Claude in the car, Chat with Pat, and AI flattery

50:03 Is Claude conscious, and who is having the experience

51:32 Saying thank you to AI, Waymo, and who is liable

54:43 Dallas hospitality and Uber drivers

57:38 Is Dallas the South

58:15 Wrap-up and sending Nina back to school

ZPupp’s home from college!