This is Prager's label for the opinion he is offering today. Calm down, he is saying it tongue in cheek, a slightly self-deprecating and slightly ironic statement.
You should be so humble.
Yes, yes, I know, he's not particularly humble in other things he's said. I get sick and tired, myself, of him bragging that he's probably one of eleven people in the nation who would be interested in this or that thing. Sorry, Prager, you're not such a rare bird. I admit that where I am now, there are no people within my acquaintance who are interested in things like that. But there are plenty of us anyway, I just don't happen to know any of them any more.
It's more to your shame that you don't, either. If your wife falls asleep when you start to tell her why and when peanuts sprout, that's your problem, and you must have married the wrong woman. But some of us really are interested in such matters and there are a helluvalot more than eleven of us.
Me, I find it fascinating that some of the people here in Kentucky STILL say "hit" when we would say "it", and that that's straight out of Middle English of approximately Chaucer's time. It amazes me that an accent could have survived so long and so far. I'm sure you're intrigued too. And there are a lot more than eleven of us.
So stop it. I know you're joking, the underestimation is deliberate for the sake of humor, but it's annoying.
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