Robert Pape

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2,835 appearances 10 recordings 4 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 30 Jun

Robert Pape’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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And the reason is because they won't let the picture.

I mean the actual shop floor, just like you go in the West Wing.

They take the cell phone.

They don't want – they could easily be talking smack and bragging and showing all this off.

They're just not doing that.

And that tells me we're up against not just a competitor, but we're up against somebody who wants to keep going under the radar.

I heard about a trip that 30 of our professors were going on to study the economic industries in China.

A couple graduate students were going, and I said, well, are there any undergrads going?

No.

So I wrote a letter to the chancellor.

His name was Wesley Posvar.

And two-page letter.

Brilliant idea.

You're going to be the first university trip ever.

Too bad you don't have an undergrad going.

I got a free trip to China.

So I always tell that story to my students.

Just write those letters.

What do you got to lose?

And so I get a five-week trip.

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