WRFH/Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM - Truman and Claire Like People: Danny Molter

Episode Date: March 27, 2024

This week on the podcast we talk about dairy beverages, Greek life on campus, and how goated Hillsdale STEM is. 

You are listening to Truman and Claire like people on Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM. I'm Truman and I'm Claire. And we like people. Today we like Danny Malter, who is an ATO. He's a member of a few good men. He is in the Sigma Zeta honorary. He made Jacob Carson and I officially boyfriend and girlfriend. Ooh, Danny, could you expand further on this?

Yeah, so this is when I was pledging ATO fall of my freshman year. Jacob wasn't active at the time when he still went here And I bumped into him and Claire in the library When I was up late working on something And so I was like, oh Jacob Is this your girlfriend? And then they looked at each other for like two seconds Like without any verbal communication

We're like Yeah Yeah she is Yep He was gonna ask me to be his girlfriend like 30 minutes after that And he had a whole thing planned out And you hit that And that's really funny

It makes him a little bit mad Got him. Just kind of enzymatically sped up that process. Ain't no thing. Yeah. Ain't no thing. And here we are. And look at us now.

Best friends. Who would have thought? Not me. So like you just said, you are an ATO pledge. You are an ATO now. What's the craziest story that you can tell on air from living in the ATO house? Oh, my God. Craziest story.

There was one time, I mean, there were several times this happened, but like me and a couple other guys, like notably Sam Swisher and I would just be up late. And then it would just be like demon hour. So we would just like harass like whoever was like up or not up. We locked some people in like the bathroom when they got up to go to use the restroom in the middle of the night. We like held the door on them. I went to I went back to bed after one such demon hour and someone poured apple juice all over my bed. There's a lot of crazy stuff that a lot of it is not meant for the public eye. Yeah. My time of the A2 house. Not to be all clandestine like that, but it's nuts. It's like none of it is like secret or cool. No, it's just like, it's just boys being dudes. Yeah.

Just guys being boys, you know? I woke up to many an indoor water balloon fight. I would like hear screeching and Jacob and I would go outside and it would be like Zach Boutter throwing water balloons at people inside the house. Yeah. So that's actually a great point. So on that note, some people, whose identity will remain unknown love to like just like violate our property rights and like just

break in and uh it's really weird we never like we never visually catch who they are but they're always there they're always there at least like once or twice a semester and it's just like in the middle of the night you know we have midterms the next day and it's like you just hear like screeching outside like your room and you're like what the hell is going on so like any good uh second amendment believer, we just kill them. No, well, we just rally as many water balloons as we can

and like, you know, whoa. Okay, so in your opinion where the founding father is referring to water and balloons in the Second Amendment, not to guns? Honestly, I think that's, that depends if you're, like, Coolidge-pilled or if you're

like, Wilson-pilled. It depends if you're Wilson-pilled or Coolidge pill, but... Do we have a living Constitution, living a bill of rights? And Wilson famously said, I mean, I love water balloons. Yeah, no, that was really

divisive, especially during World War I. I don't know why he said that. Yeah. Well, Danny, my housemates and I were planning on an ATO raid soon, so I'm glad that we're prepared. We might just forget about. Yeah, bring the Arcterics. Bring all the water repelling agency can.

Now ATO is going to raid harbored. Lincoln Teddy is just a water repelling Also, Claire has a note. This time she wrote the questions. She says that you've had a lot of two mates and housemates. Sorry. That are pretty well known on campus, comma. Do you have a favorite question mark?

I don't know who you lived with freshman year, but I feel like Kirsten, West Burrth House is a pretty... Yeah, I'm getting docs right now. That's crazy. No, so I, freshman year, I lived with Jeff O'Neill in Simpson. Simpson 3FS. It was dope. He was such a great roommate.

You were on 3FS? Yeah. Okay, that was my hall, my freshman year. Tangent, but I think that I lived on for real, like, the most loaded hall. Yeah, so, no, it was actually really fun as, like, a freshman coming in there and just being like, wow, like, these guys are really energetic and, like, fun. But also, like, you know, I didn't feel this, but, like, not too overbearing at all about it. It was really cool. It was just a really neat experience.

I met a lot of cool people. But, yeah, living with Jeff was really dope. We had like a really great setup. And it just had like a bunch of like really great guys on my hall that I still talk to whenever I can. But I'm kind of like I live like under a rock now, which is like mega unfortunate. And who did you live with in between Jeff and Burt House? Yeah. So I lived in the ATO house for sophomore year.

I live with Carson Lopez. It was actually really cool living with him. We kind of like, it was kind of random. So I was just like, yeah, I don't know. I kind of want to live with someone I didn't really like know as well like going into like going into. ATO is like an active. So I'm like, I don't know. I'll just kind of see who needs a house or who needs a roommate, I guess. And so Kirsten was just like, dude, I'm not going to, because we have like a ranking system that determines who gets to pick first. And both Kerson and I were pretty like low on

like the ranking system. And so he's just like, I don't know really where I'm going to like live in the house. I'm like, oh, me neither. And he's like, do you want to be roommates? And I was like, yeah, sure. So we lived in like one of the most cramped rooms in the house. It was really cool. Yeah. L shape is terrible. Yeah. Woted. Actually, I don't know. I think the current members have proven that you can make do it with it. But I most certainly did not. I slept in like a chair we had in our room for like half of the nights there. So you just got a call from your girlfriend, Madison.

True. My good friend, beautiful girl. Curston Lopez's girlfriend was on the show recently. Your two frat boys. What advice would you have for chronically single, scary frat boys on how to get a girlfriend? Chronically single, scary frat boys is the demographic. Okay. Yeah.

Yeah. So honestly, my take, I mean, this extends like pretty much any primarily males on Hillsdale's campus, but like just ask someone out. Like it doesn't, there's not like this magical criteria that someone has to meet to be like, you know, I don't know. When you're a single person, sometimes you don't know what you want. But other times like you could be like, especially at Hillsdale, you could get yourself into such a pigeonhole as to like what you're looking for. My advice would just be if you're like interested in someone at all, just like try to talk to them a little bit. And then even if you can't, just like ask them out, take them on a date. It's like not that hard. You're a casual dating pilled. Yeah, very, very much so. Just like, I'm also just like we don't have much time on this earth pilled. So like if you want to find a mate just like search like it's, you know, you find someone attractive. Oh, that person's cool. I'm going to ask them out. Like that's how that's how it was, I think. People used to have Riz. We used to be a proper country.

No longer. I mean, well, I don't know. I don't want to get into politics on air, so. RIS politics. Yeah. RIS economy. I will be voting for the candidate that will have the best platform for how to increase RIS in America.

I mean, I mean this both in terms of the presidential election between Trump and Joe Biden and also the senior class president officer election that I'm definitely allowed to vote in. I'm just gonna cheat. I'm gonna vote for Nathan Stannish. But speaking of those elections, you weren't on the Burt House campaign. I was not. Why? Oh, okay. So honestly, I just like, I'm really bad at like managing my time. And I like, they also kind of had like a set roster that we like all agreed upon myself included. I think it was a, I think we picked like really good candidates that like we could actually do a really, really good job acting as a student body.

I'm just like too sporadic of a person to even throw my hat in the ring. Part of me was like, oh yeah, that would be like fun as like an idea, kind of as like a daydream. But I would never seriously consider it just because I know myself and I'd be too like, I would forget I'd have like a major speech to give like at like a donor event. And I'd be like, you know. Rats. Rats, exactly. Are you guys all living together next year? Yeah, yeah.

So that's the plan. Yeah. It's so much fun. So if everyone gets their positions, then they all. all live together. Any worries about that? Yeah, we will be enlisting some of the finest armed bodyguards

out there. Private private military contractors will be contacted because we have many people are after them, you know. Yeah. You know, sometimes myself included, but no, I'm kidding. Love you guys. Speaking of love, you're listening to Truman and Clearleg people on Radio Free Hillsdale

101.7 FM. So ATO, like every other house, mine included, Kyle Mega, had a pretty teeny tiny pledge class this semester. Why do you think that is? I don't know. I think it's just, I think it boils down to different ideas of like what people in the chapter are looking for. And it's just, you know, it's not anyone's specific fault, I guess, but it's just tricky determining like a vision for what you want something to be. And it sounds so silly because it's like a college fraternity, right? Like, why am I talking in like such a, oh, it's like, you know, the vision, you know, but it's like everyone has an idea of like what they want in like a social environment. And like ATO is no different. I just think it boils down to like those. differences. And, you know, it's just a difference of the difference of opinion. Do you think less people want to go Greek than in past years? Yeah, on the whole. I mean, all the sorority pledge classes were much smaller than normal this year. I really, I don't know. I think it's like a tough thing to

interpret given like a four year like stint here. I have no idea. That's actually a great question. So I mean, if I had to say if it was tending one direction or another, I would say at Hillsdale, it's like steadily I would say steadily like decreasing but I don't think that's just I don't know why that is particularly but that's what I'd have to say and I like that makes me a little like

sad because I I really enjoyed my time at ATO so far I've really like still some of the people I'm like closest with like bar none it's really like I really benefited from it in a lot of ways and like living off campus too has been interesting too because it's like it's more of a challenge

to coordinate things because we're not all in the house but like, I don't know. I just look at it in my experience and it's just been a really positive like really positive experience. I really enjoyed my time there. Make the case for milk based alcoholic beverages. Oh my gosh. Okay. Yeah. In moderation.

Yeah, of course. Everything in moderation. Too hilarity and no further. Yes. Of course. My opinion is that milk based alcoholic beverages hypothetically slap. I asked, I wrote this because I completely agree with you. And you one of the only people that I know that also drinks milk-based alcoholic beverages.

I can recall one time, the only time I haven't enjoyed a milk-based alcoholic beverage. When we made gilk over the summer, which is gin and milk. And it was probably the worst thing I've ever consumed. Yeah, that was an all-time low. That was... The bar was subterranean. It was really bad. It was really awful.

Okay, my housemates tease me because I only love. like sweet alcoholic drinks and I don't actually like totally acceptable. Totally acceptable. If I'm going to branch out here, what are some good milk-based? Kalua. Yeah, white Russian every time. Every time. Or a brown Russian, which is just with chocolate milk.

Yeah. Those are really good. Mudslides are also good. Yeah. Just, oh, you can't go wrong. Bushwhackers. Yes, no certainly. I like, I really enjoy the, uh, it like cuts with the alcoholic, the taste of the alcohol.

And it's really like you just get like a smooth kind of like creamy like coffee drink. Yeah. And it's really good. It's kind of out of the ordinary like, oh, like that's weird. Like alcohol with vodka and milk. Like that sounds bad. But then like. It's awesome.

Yeah. It's amazing. I just if you're a hater, you're just either a hater to be a hater or you're lactose intolerant, in which case I cannot help you. Maybe add some fair life at that point. Yeah. Or make your own lactase enzyme. I don't really care.

Just get over it. Okay. So speaking of lactase enzyme. enzymes. You're a STEM major. Yes. You're in Sigma Zeta. Yes, I am. Yes. Science and Math Honor, like myself. Okay. What specifically is your major? Biochemistry.

Biochemistry. Okay. Can you tell us more about your experience there? Do you think that STEM at Hillsdale is on par with state schools? Oh, we like, I think this is like a, I don't think a lot of Hillsdale people, let alone like anyone would really argue with this. It's just going off the numbers. But at least for like some of our standardized tests that we have to take, Hillsdale consistently ranks above like the national average for organic chemistry like on their standardized tests we are significantly ahead of the curve my personal experience i did not personally contribute to that but organic chemistry was miserable because i took that as a lowly freshman who didn't know what like

you know true good or beautiful was at that point so i was just like many such cases yeah many many such cases it was really bad no so and then the same goes for our so my comp exam was actually just the aces test for biochem i took that in advanced biochem i took that in advanced biochem last year. And again, same thing. Like, everyone, Hillsdale just did significantly better than the national average. And it's because our faculty cares and you're kind of hurted in like cattle at like almost any other place. And like, this is a really weird phenomenon. And like talking to all the STEM people in the audience, like, imagine your prof is like, like, you have a question about like the protease mechanism, right? Or like a Syrian protease mechanism. Imagine trying to like go to Dr. Hamilton about

that and he's just like like in his tone with you he's just really pre-concerned with like his own research he's he's busy working on like the glidden mimic or like the gluten intolerance that he like the work that he works with that's a big phenomenon at state schools is like profs just prioritize like their own research like above their students education it's really crazy that's anecdotal for me like i can't personally attest to that but like i've heard i have heard stories of that and it's just you know and then that and then the seminar classes with like five gazillion people in there like I just not that's just not conducive to learning I've met the most energetic and helpful people in the hillsdale sciences like probably ever like I've never met people

that are so like passionate about what they teach and know it's really cool so speaking of maybe some different kind of science out of this world do you believe in aliens oh okay I don't I actually don't think so one I just like I don't know I was a little bit torn actually after I read the, I didn't finish it yet, but I read most of the space trilogy by C.S. Lewis. And I was just like, yeah, goaded. Goaded series. I was just like, I don't know. I really liked the idea of it, but I just like don't think that like higher life forms are out there personally. I think it's like really strange, but I really don't. I think there's like a ton of microorganisms and maybe even some like smaller like animals, like maybe mammal type creatures or like, you know,

something comparable to that on other planets, but I really don't believe in aliens. I think, I think a lot of alien stuff that comes out of like the government. I think it's all just like a hoax, honestly. I just don't believe it. It's a sciop. Or something. I don't even know. I just like,

I just don't. It's so, it's too fantastical. And it's like, I don't, if that was the case, I think it would be like, there would be way more,

such a bigger investment of time and money into that. But maybe we're just unbeknownst to that. Maybe they're like working around the clock to like get those little guys from like Mars attacks to like to like, to like show us how to like make the best like eight oh, bass kick, you know. Yeah. Maybe that's what they're secretly doing with our tax money.

Speaking of the best, you're listening to Truman and Claire like people on Radio for Hillsdale 101.1.7 FM. All right. We're going to introduce a new section called 15-second guest ASMR. Danny, take it away. Thank you. That was really awful. Yeah.

Should we go to the rapid fire section? And now we're going to go into the rapid fire section. Danny, what's your crappiest grade you've ever got to Hillsdale? You've got to be kind of stupid, right? Oh, yeah. Most certainly. Crappiest grade I got here was probably, oh, I actually don't remember. This is so bad.

This is so weird because I like love talking about like getting bad grades being in Hillsdale sciences, but I have like no idea. Probably, oh, oh, I got a 50% on an organic chem final first semester. And that was far from the lowest grade. But like, low single digit percent. Yeah, what did you end up with an orgo? Oh, I got like a B minus. I take that. Is that your lowest final grade you've received? Yes.

Okay. No, I'm just lucky. Like, totally honest. Looking at you, what's your ethnic background? Yeah, so I get asked this a lot. I mean, my parents are like both like very white. My dad is like Anglo-Mut, like German, British, Scottish, and my mom is like 100% Italian. So I think it's like

It's kind of like when you make a smoothie And you put like banana in it It's like oh my gosh Banana smoothie Even though you have like five metric tons of strawberries in there It still tastes like banana Even though you just put one in Same thing goes with like Southern Italian DNA

I just look like I just look very dark In terms of complexion And yeah it's just crazy Who is your favorite couple on campus Um I'm gonna be a little biased here And I'm probably gonna have to say

Jacob Carson and Claire Goday That would be of course barring Madison Asher and myself Yeah Because like there's just no You know Just no competition but That's true

And I can test that But there could be If people went on casual dates Yeah come on If you date you could beat us You totally could Like there's the Come on

Just like put your hat in the ring Please Please for the love of God Date someone Who's your favorite fundee? Oh okay I don't know who counts as a fundy And if I say a person

I don't know if they're gonna get offended It's not it it's a badge of honor It's it's a complete badge of honor if you are called a fundy There's nothing like you were So say it I don't know I actually I'm stalling because I'm trying to think of someone I'm gonna have to go with Julian Burchard Super Smash Bros. I'll go with it

Extraordinaire just just the goat honestly Julian's great His me brawler's cheese But if he plays with anyone else he still runs my pockets so I didn't understand a bit of that at all. Zoomer speak. If you could make any two dorms on campus co-ed, which ones would you make co-ed? Oh, I know this one.

So Simpson, right, holds. Watch it burn. Watch the chaos just ensue. No, but it's actually, that wouldn't work because that's my answer, but it wouldn't work because they'd probably just be too nice. I'd probably be off my calculations. Or they'd be too scared to talk to girls. Affirmation, go date people.

That's not a knock at Simpson particularly. Just like guys on campus. Just like, it doesn't matter. Just ask someone out, please. Jesus calls us to love other people. Who do you love the least? Oh, like a single person? I don't know.

I can run like a very quick list. There was one time I was like walking like past Central Hall and I bumped into who I have like no relationship with it all. And like it was a mutual thing. Like I was trying to go right. So she went right, left, she went left. It's like Polar Express. And then I like brush past her a little bit.

And I'm like, oh, sorry. And then she's like, like, people need to learn how to like walk in here. Oh my gosh. And I'm like, huh? Like what? So that's one. That was just annoying. A person though, because I know you guys want to know.

Do you just like everyone? It's like a fault of my. Madison like picks on me a little bit for it. She's like, oh my gosh. Like everything, every time you bring someone up there like, yeah, really nice guy, really funny, like really smart or something. I'm like, I don't know. Person I don't like probably.

Probably. Here he got it's bro. Danny, why is it that you and Louisa Klazner just do not get along? Who is that? I have no idea who that is. Why is it that you and Cole Shanks just cannot stand each other? Dude, okay, if he offers me another menthol one more time. I'm just going to get throat cancer anyway.

I won't even have to smoke it. More evidence that Danny loves everyone on campus. I'm going to launch Col Shanks out of a month. A canon. Who should we have on the show next? Cole shanks. So I can bust in here and finally give him just retribution. Yeah, give him what for?

Claire, on a scale of 1 to 21. How much did you like this podcast? On a scale from 1 to 21, how my name is Jeff? I would say, well, Bundy's one of my favorite people. That is what I call Danny. Thank you, Claire. Bundy's one of my favorite people on campus. Oh, that was my pledge name.

Bundy was my pledge name because my... Because he's so scary. My ID looks like a... I look like a serial killer in my ID. Yeah, because of his ID and the fact that he murders people. Wow. I would say probably a 20.8. Wow.

That's high. I'm going to go with just a 20. Truman hates you. Goaded. New beef just dropped. Danny and Truman. Truman is the first person that Danny Moulter doesn't like.

However... And it's only because he's a math major. That being said, I'm Truman and I still like people. I'm Claire and I also still like most people. And you've been listening to Truman and Clear Lake people on Radio Free Hillsdale, 101.7 FM.