He's a doctor, a lawyer, a bioethicist, a college professor, a licensed New York City tour guide, a poet, a playwright, | dG1fdy02NW40dV9qMUE
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00:00 Jacob Appel is a genius.
00:04 One word for Jacob Appel? Brilliant.
00:07 Super smart, intelligent, successful.
00:09 Sometimes I think Jacob is a figment of my imagination, of all of our imaginations.
00:14 So I graduated from Brown, which I have to tell people is a four-year college.
00:20 With a BA and an MA.
00:23 MA in American History.
00:25 And a Master of Philosophy from Columbia in History.
00:28 Half the Ivy League schools to his name.
00:31 I have an MFA in Fiction Creative Writing from NYU.
00:35 I have a medical degree from Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons.
00:40 I'm off at law school with a JD.
00:42 He's giving me psychiatric advice, he's giving me legal advice, so I mean he's a good friend to have.
00:47 I have a degree in Bioethics and MS, a degree in Playwriting from Queens College, CUNY.
00:54 I figured that the guy just didn't sleep, which I later found out to be pretty much true.
00:59 And I have an MPH from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
01:04 And he probably has some others too, okay, I'm stopping there.
01:08 That's pretty good, yep, I didn't know that.
01:11 I paid for some of them, but I didn't know that.
01:21 You're the American ideal, academically at least.
01:24 Well my grandmother would have been very proud of that.
01:26 My grandfather would have pointed out that there were still five Ivy League schools left.
01:30 (upbeat music)