WRFH/Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM - Truman and Claire Like People: Gavin Listro and Nathan Stanish

Episode Date: April 7, 2024

This week Truman and Claire try their hand in moderating a presidential debate. Both candidates for senior class officer board now have our full endorsement, not that it matters since voting is closed. 

I'm Truman. And I'm Claire. And we like people. Today we like Gavin Leistro and Nathan Stanish. Your two presidential candidates for the 2024 senior class officer election. Gavin is of course made famous by his work in the schismatics. He's a musical boy. And Nathan is from Quora.

Wow. Is that really what you're going with? Yes. I feel like there's a little disparity here. I'm also on the student ministries board I'm a goal program I train all the student ambassadors on campus I'm on staff at the Collegian

and you went with Quora Okay that's what Nathan does All right and Nathan is on the Collegian Nathan complains Well guys so You know we not only like people We like civics here at Truman and Clear League people

And so I wanted to ask I know this is going to be a very contentious election So It already has been. It's over. Yeah. We'll do Gavin first, followed by Nathan. If you are elected, who will you persecute most during your reign as Supreme

Overlord and why? Oh, man. Probably limited to campus, but I mean, you can take it elsewhere. What powers do I even have? I'm not even sure what that is. I didn't read. Why are you even running, Gavin? I am the Cincinnati of this election.

I don't think Cincinnati's was running as like, what am I running for? You're thinking Joe Biden. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think I would probably have to say saga clappers, people who clap in saga. Okay, get them out. Good answer. Okay, plus 50 points. Yes, sometimes I do that, I will admit.

Good thing I'm graduating. Yeah, you won't be able to be. All right, Nathan, what about you? I think this is an easy one. I am going to make sure that anybody who ever tries to touch a piano in saga. Yeah. And otherwise make use of music in settings where. Nobody wants to hear what they have to play.

I think they will either be expelled from the school or find more serious punishment, and the piano will be burned. Yeah. Okay. I think if I win and Nathan doesn't, I'm going to appoint him for the cabinet position of saga management. Of burning PMOs. Okay.

So interesting, because I thought there was a lot of beef between you two, and I wanted to ask, we'll do Nathan first, called by Gavin. Nathan, when did you first realize that Gavin Leastrow should not be allowed to take power? Mm-hmm. I think it was during this interview when I found out that Gavin has no idea what the president does in any way. Gavin, what about you? Gavin St.

When did I realize that Nathan Stennis should not have power? That's a loaded question. Man, it could be the neon. I don't know. You know, I think there's a really big problem in U.S. politics where the dress code is kind of slipping in the Senate. You have people, you know, showing up in sweatpants. I'd like to point out that Gavin is currently wearing gym shorts and a t-shirt. What do you wearing Nathan?

Nathan's wearing pastel shorts. I was just saying, no. That would be sick, though, if you showed up to the first day as president in like a neon. I was saying I'm enforcing a neon dress code, actually. Yeah. One piece of neon. Pinday. Yeah.

Oh, not one piece. Pinday for all of the independent boys. One piece. Three piece neon suits. Yeah. That's probably, that's why I hate him so much. That's why you hate him. That's that one random thing.

Okay. Following that. Now you have to say one nice thing about the other person. Gannon, you go first. Oh, let me take a break real quick. Take a minute to think. I think I really admire. I was really scared to come into this interview because I admire Stanich's wit.

And he's very quick on his feet. And so I was kind of scared. He's going to come at me. And I was brainstorming. He's like, no-uh. So I would say that's probably the biggest thing. I thought you were going to follow that up with. I just, I really like that Nathan just has the confidence to wear anything.

thing. He'll just throw on anything and walk him off the table. It's like not. Me personally, I would have looked in the mirror and said absolutely not. But you know, it's just great. I like getting dressed with my eyes open. Good for him. Nathan, same question. I actually rejected the possibility of a TV interview

just because I know what happened to JFK and Nixon and I know the dangers of letting a more attractive person be on TV with you. Kevin's a very good looking guy. He's a lead singer of a popular student band. It's very dangerous. Only we can combine each other into one super candidate. Yeah.

Handsome and confidence. Yeah. And wit. And wit. Well, guys, this is, so I believe this is the first runoff Hillsdale student body election in a number of years that is unquantified. Yeah. But this isn't the first runoff election in history.

There have been some very contentious ones. History of what? The world. America. Gotcha. Georgia. In 2021. True.

You know? And, you know, there have been some unpleasant results of such runoff elections in the past. So, Gavin, if you lose and Nathan Stanish gives a state of the union address as he plans. State of the state of the student union. Yeah, state of group. What form will your protests take? Will your fans be peacefully and patriotically making their voices heard at the suites? Or will you tell them to stand back and stand by?

Honestly, I think we should just break windows. Enter unlawfully. Which windows? All of them. Windows around Nathan Stanich's room. Maybe by accident Nathan Stanish's room. You never know. Okay.

Nathan, what about you? If you lose, how many Quora articles will you be writing about Gavin? I actually have a very simple process with this. So first of all, I have posters prepared that are going to compare Gavin Leastrow to JFK. And then I actually have a scheduled a celebratory presidential drive-through Dallas.

for him the day after. So I'm just, because I just, I'm so excited to celebrate what he'll be doing. That's awesome. I heard it's going to be a beautiful day. I probably had the top down. Yeah,

I mean, I mean, there's a new grassy knoll in Hillsdale, right? True. Yeah. I made sure the CIA has a lot of operatives in areas, so they'll be able to protect you. Epic. This is so thoughtful of you.

I'd also like to say that, no matter who wins, I'm going to thank both of you for being the last two because I'm just glad that we don't, that we don't have risk of a woman becoming a president. you know that was my main reason that I did not vote for clear last year actually and you still are friends yes we still are friends I actually I've been thinking about putting Truman on a little drive myself

there's still room left in the car yeah yeah but you know nothing against Mary Beth or Natalie LeBlanc it's just that as women I do not think that they are competent to be president so I'm just glad even if you go off the rails it can't be any worse than what they would do All right. Tomorrow, I know that when Michael Bachman announces who the alleged victor is, neither of you will accept anything but victory. Will you be potentially calling for a stop the count? I'm going a little counterintuitive with this one, actually. I have a start the count prepared. I have a couple boxes of votes that didn't actually make it into the regular action that should pop up just after the announcement. Like my vote? Yeah, your vote should be in there, a few other votes that didn't quite make the cut.

That's great. That's great. Speaking of not making the cut, listening to Radio Free Hillsdale, 101.1.7 FM, Truman and Claire Lake people. Guys, I'd like both of you to tell me a joke, perhaps one that you came up with last night, and then we'll know if you're funny enough to be a commencement speaker. That's a crazy question because I was on the toilet yesterday and I thought of a beautiful dad joke. And I'm going to tell it to you right now. Okay, I have to condense it because it's kind of a good lead up. Okay, so new parents, first baby, they come home with the baby, just got back home, they're all excited, but they're kind of nervous because the baby hasn't pooped yet.

Oh, tough. And they're like, you know, that first poop for the baby is really big, you know, it's supposed to be, you know, it's huge. I remember my own. But yeah, so they're like kind of anticipating it. And the wife's, you know, freaking out. Classic first time mom just like, it hasn't poop yet. She hasn't, he hasn't pooped yet. And the dad's like, yeah, she'll poop.

It's actually, it's a he. Yeah, he'll poop, he'll poop. And finally, eventually, uh, it does poop. And the baby poops and the mom's just like static, crying. Like, I'm so happy. And the dad's just kind of dismissed it. He's like, yeah, anyway, I knew she had it in her. Oh.

And now you, Nathan. Yeah, that was really good. Thank you. I'm excited to be a dad and never tell that joke. Yeah, I botched the ending there. I knew he had it in him, is the punchline there. Girls can't have it in them. It just doesn't work.

She had it in her. Yeah. Do you want us to edit the last minute and then you can say the actual ending? I knew he had it. had it in him. There you go. Oh, Nathan. Oh, it didn't make sense before.

That's the funniest joke ever. All right. Did you think of this yesterday? Be honest. Oh, no. This is an old one. This is an old classic. That's okay.

That's okay. I'm going to go with a classic joke. I followed the rules. No, it's okay. You probably haven't heard this one. Once upon a time, there was a little village where there were several friars. And these friars ran a flower shop, as friars often do. Now, it happened to be a super successful flower shop.

Nobody else in town was able to get a competitive. competitive flower shop because the friars always managed to outperform them. Now, this was a real problem for the town. It really impacted the economy. For any of you studied economics, you know, the problem of monopoly, in this case, a friar monopoly. So what the townspeople did is, first, they tried to subsidize a business to get them out of business. It didn't work. The friars were still the most successful business in town. It was terrible. So you know what they did? They found this guy named Hugh. Hugh, six foot four, 300-pound guy. And they said, Hugh, we need you to go beat up these friars. You know what Hugh did? He went and he beat them up. And you know what those friars did? They

left town and they were never able to run that flower shop again. You know what this tells us? Hugh and only Hugh can stop florist friars. Wow. Is there any chance that Mary Beth can be brought in? I felt really bad about mine until he said his. And now you feel worse. She's a woman. Ergo she's not funny. I'm never driving you home again. Truman. Oh. Oh darn.

recently we spoke about Michael Bachman, friend of the show, not friend of Marianne Powers. Oh. I'm wondering how you guys stand on the infinite miss Michael Bachman Marion Powers feud of 2021. And just to clue in,

this is a very real feud that happened. Michael Bachman punched her in the face. Over spinach. Recounted in our first episode with Michael Bachman. You know, I know that you both are very opinionated on this, and I think this is maybe why you're running against each other. street resident that lives, you know, somewhat close to Michael and a whole program leader. Yeah. Who knows Marianne? Yeah. Who knows Marianne? Where do you stand on it? How do you think this speaks to the

larger political scene at Hillsdale? Nathan, you go first. Yeah, no, that's a great question. So back in the glory days of politics, it was not uncommon to have duels and fights on the Senate floor. So I just want to point that out first of all. Yeah. I know Michael Bachman, he's the one who ran the feature on me last semester. I know Marianne Powers. I work for her. Having pointed out that I work for one of those people? I think they're good people on both sides. Yeah. Okay.

Dodge the question. Gavin, you have a chance to respond. Lovely people. Maybe they should just get lunch instead of the differences. I don't know. Lunch in Saga? That's where it's where it's Spanish.

So in 2021, I don't know if you remember. I was living in Sipson. And so I don't know what was happening on campus besides if it wasn't in Simpson. I'm sorry. Because the only things that were happening

or in Simpson. Very true, very true. All right, so I consider myself a bit of a fundy expert. Claire has referred to Gavin as sort of a fundy. I kind of disagree. That's true.

Oh, really? Okay, well, do you consider yourself fundies? Why? And what does this say about your voting base, perhaps? Gavin, you go first. So the thing with like fundies

is I admire the idea of a fundy because I think that just means that you're like really dedicated to something and you like care a lot about it. And so like if you think about like, I'm not going to name groups on campus, I don't be targeted, but like people who are really into like folk music and they do it really well. So you just named a group on campus? Well, not I wasn't going to say, like the folk music club. I wasn't going to say the band who plays the folk music.

But you know, like that's, I think that's really great that they're like dedicated to something and they do it really well. So in that case, sure, I'm a fundy. I don't clap in saga. So that in that way. come down a fundy. Am I a fundy? Yes. Dang.

I think we all have a little fundy at this. Yeah. Nathan? That's a good question. I think the important thing is to distinguish between like just someone who's passionate about something because let's be honest, ATO's very passionate about alcohol. Nobody's calling them a fundy. I think part of a fundy is, I mean, one, you're very serious about your academics,

but also, let's be honest, a fundy is that person who's asking too many questions in class and is only asking the questions to make themselves look smart. Okay. I think you're right to say we all have a funny streak in them. I think I think I definitely have a funny streak in me. I think most of us who grew up like homeschool especially have that in me. But I definitely would say that I have a pretty big fundy voting base. Yeah.

Okay. And I'm not ashamed of that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I mean, a recent poll said that 92.4% of junior swing club members are voting for Nathan Stanish. She's not a real poll.

Well, 85.3.7%. Hey, hey. And you know why it's not a real poll? Because juniors don't go to swing. That's what I should do. Kately Philip does. Oh yeah, she's voting for me. Yeah, I'm going to call her out.

That's the 92% Shout out to Caleb Phillips. Whereas 85.3% of Greek life is voting for Gavin Lesterow. It's because I live with ATOs. Oh, yeah, that's right. That's right. And I haven't been blacklisted.

I've actually never been to an annex party, which is surprising. I don't even know where the jungles are. I'm going to be honest. The jungle is. Yeah. You're going to be honest. Some multiple.

I can tell you where they're out. Everyone knows that the reason people come to senior class events is for free alcohol. What, where do you stand on that? If you're president, are you getting people crunk?

Are you getting people wasted? You'd have to ask my running mate, Jack Cody, who's in charge of that area. Social chair. That was his thing. He's got an interesting philosophy on how to be social.

I think for me, I think alcohol is often the easy way out to make an event fun because if it's going to be a boring event, if you provide alcohol, suddenly it's not a boring event. So true. I think the one thing we've really been lacking when it comes to senior events, because I get the senior emails, they messed up all the credit things.

So I steal what all the events are. Nice. We need game show senior events. I thought you were going to say like hard drugs. I thought you were going to double down. I thought we already had those. I thought those were already there. But if we had more game show events, like this semester,

I hosted a Shark Tank, a Jeopardy, and a family feud. And I think any of those would be super fun with the senior class. We did America's Got. talent and it went so it was it was karaoke i mean the event was super fun i guess that's not what i'm saying it was just how were the sob stories um it was mostly just a lot of um drunk people that i've seen in like one class singing like there was some jimmy buffett i sang probably the worst song of the night i sang birthday sex by jeremiah oh um i got cut off hmm wow i think i sing a couple songs i think I was one of the Jimmy Buffet people actually.

Yeah. Were you the one in the Hawaiian shirt or was that? Yes, that was me. Okay, that was me. That was you. Well, it might have them both. We both have it. Like, I feel like that sort of event is good for Hawaiian shirts.

Yeah. All right. So, speaking of planning student events. Nathan, you're a picky eater. And how, can they really, can the people really trust you with handling their food? Why are you a picky eater? Gavin, you're going to put old base seasoning and everything is what I've heard. How do you know that?

We do our research. into this. What did you talk? It's like Nardward over here. Did you Google my name again? They look the poor picky eater. Yes. Dangerous.

All right. So I'd like both of you to answer for these weird food ticks you have. Nathan, you go first. You're absolutely right that I have a picky eater. What I am is this bizarre contradiction that is a really picky, easily contented eater. So if I just had peanut butter sandwiches for the rest of my life, I'd be happy. I could have those at every meal. However.

So you have autism. That is an interesting way to work with that. Hey, you're a good company in this room. Yeah, you're with the best. Some of the best are here. I like to consider myself an artist with a British accent. But there are different ways to look at that. I think that food's just not going to be in my department.

I will pack my peanut butter sandwich and I will have a bunch away. Well, before we say anything, I have to note, the audience probably has an image in their head of a peanut butter sandwich. Nathan Stanish's peanut butter sandwich does not include jelly. Oh. Well, that's probably why he didn't call it peanut butter and jelly That is why I did I'll give you guys a picture

You put honey on it You open up a loaf of bread Eel A slice of bread falls down You take that bread And you place it on the countertop You behold the bread You see the evenly spaced wheat

Inside of it You take a knife You slather some peanut butter Upon it Make it stop You push it all over the bread Then you take another Perfect slice of bread

And you place it on top you have just completed a perfect peanut butter sandwich. Aren't you all so sad that you can't take back your votes? Well, but Gavin would probably put old base seasoning on that. All right. Let me vindicate myself here. Who did you hear that from? Anonymous sources.

Was it Max or Jack Cody? Anonymous source. Okay. So in my childhood, I was born in New England. And so, like, eastern coast of the United States is very near dear to my heart. And so the flavors of Old Bay, which is supposed to be paired with, like, crab meats and seafood, is very, you know, close to my heart. So I put it on eggs. I put it on popcorn.

I put it on... It's good on popcorn. Yeah, see? And I put it on Old Bay flavored sunflower seeds already flavored. So I flavor blasted them like a, like a, what's it called? Like a flavor blaster. You know how they have goldfish or flavor blasted? I do that with my old bay.

one time I got obey in my eye How would you respond to that, Gavin? Riggled me that, Mr. President. That was another comeback I was thinking of for Nathan when I was brainstorming comeback. It was going to be wamp-womp-womp. Okay. Nathan, can you respond to the burnt house ad?

And then also, Gavin, I'd like to know a little more about how the ad is created. Oh, sure, yeah, yeah. It's a process. But Nathan, first you want to know your hard-hitting opinion on this piece of propaganda. The video? Yeah.

First of all, I'm not going to lie, I expect it better from Jack Cody because Jack Cody creates the most go-to videos I've ever seen on campus. And so I watched a video. I was like, I'm probably about to watch Martin Scorsese in five minutes. And I was like, oh, we went for the middle school project five. However, it's a fun video. I was hoping there'd be like something about what they wanted to do if they became officer.

Did you watch the video? Yeah, I did. You said, we're going to do fun events. And I was like, oh, that's great. Fun events. I wonder what they're going to be. Nathan, have you been listening to this podcast? Have you heard, are the listeners going to have any idea of what either of you want to do?

I think so. I think you always have to balance, like, how fun your campaigning is versus, like, do they have any idea what you're going to do? But it was a fun of video. I enjoyed watching it. I just didn't want to, like, overstep my balance and promise something that wasn't part of my office, because I actually don't know what I'm supposed to be doing. So you were going to say, like, hey, guys, we're going to get, who's a person people would want to. Kanye West. Kanye West.

Kanye West, for commencement the speaker. Yeah. That would be great. But that video was a lot of fun. We shot it in one night, except for the clip of my nephew saying vote Burr House. That's cute. Yeah, so that's my nephew.

Is it a family man? I'm a family man. I love my nephews and my niece. All right, guys, you probably have to wrap it up. But first, I want to know if either of you can relate with the people and ask, what is your lowest grade at Hillsville College, final grade? I don't grade. In general, like, class grade, I think the lowest I got was math and deductive reasoning,

which was like a C minus. Yeah, for me, it was also a C minus. It was in a Spanish class, and I think the worst semester I ever, ever had. I loved the professor. It was a, it was a tough semester. Okay. Was that 201? It was the 300 grammar class.

Oh, dang. They hike up the difficulty at the end there. Let me be noted that both of the presidential candidates have gotten worse grades than Trubin and I have. Yes, yes, my lowest grade is a C. My lowest grade is also a C. I have failed this single exam before. Also three for me. But you guys have gotten C-minuses.

All right. What idiots. Well, this means that they're both very qualified to represent Hillsdale. So I give my endorsement to both of them. Thank you guys so much for being on the show. We'll see what riots, what's going to erupt tomorrow. After Michael Blockman announces. Well, folks, you've been listening to Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM.

I'm Truman. And I'm Claire. And we like people. Good night. Do they listen to it at night? It's going to play at 9 a.m.