Speaker 1: Class Action is a production of I Heart Radio and
Speaker 1: Sound Argument. Dillard University is about to embark on an
Speaker 1: exhausting run of three competitions and the request to punch
Speaker 1: their ticket to the national tournament. It's the same old
Speaker 1: arson case. A bar called Chuggyes is torched, a firefighter dies,
Speaker 1: and the owner tries to collect the insurance money. Coach
Speaker 1: Adrea kimbro In students a Maya Ronsick, DeAndre Bell, la
Speaker 1: A Shelton, and Caitlin Douglas narrate this story. This is
Speaker 1: episode nine, Survive and Advance. Okay, there's this, um, I
Speaker 1: think this chance. Um, I think people who were on
Speaker 1: my team for Houston. Remember I pulled you outside. I
Speaker 1: made you'll do this chance about about this team. So
Speaker 1: I just wanted to repeat after me and keep the
Speaker 1: beat like I know we can't. Okay, just repeat after me.
Speaker 1: It's a very simple, repeat after me. This team, best team,
Speaker 1: This team is the best team, this team, this strong team,
Speaker 1: this team, this strong team. Strong. Love my team, my team,
Speaker 1: Love my team team, Love my team. Hello, my team,
Speaker 1: Hello my team. He love my team. You'll come on you.
Speaker 1: So the season is still shaping up for us. We
Speaker 1: have commitments already at competitions. UM one will be the
Speaker 1: University of Alabama, Pace University in New York, the University
Speaker 1: of Houston, which is a great competition. Yes, it's my
Speaker 1: cousin's house. When I knew was Houston and I was
Speaker 1: new is this week, I was like, Yes, we're gonna
Speaker 1: we're gonna eat good food. One of these days, we're
Speaker 1: gonna have some good homely food with my family and
Speaker 1: we're gonna have fun made you doesn't California much like Arizona.
Speaker 1: So so today is going well. Um, we are having
Speaker 1: an opportunity to test some things out. Um also having
Speaker 1: an opportunity to give some of our remembers a chance
Speaker 1: to get more experience. So I hate to say it
Speaker 1: like this, but it's almost like a vlosity j V
Speaker 1: model that happens in the screen when you put your
Speaker 1: very bens, your your best experienced talented people all on
Speaker 1: one team, almost like a warrior class if you will,
Speaker 1: I can all star team. Because you want to give
Speaker 1: yourself the best shot to make it to the championships.
Speaker 1: Some of our lesser experienced people are going to be
Speaker 1: on the team by themselves in the screen, so they're
Speaker 1: not gonna have you know, the a Maya's lagenis the
Speaker 1: deandres with them to kind of help hold them up. Alright,
Speaker 1: defense first, first of you, like Toss, I'll be playing
Speaker 1: the role of a witness. Um specifically for this round,
Speaker 1: I'll be Scotlet Dejon. Um. It's gonna be an interesting
Speaker 1: witness because we're trying out a new theory and we
Speaker 1: are contending that somebody else did it, that somebody being me,
Speaker 1: and so I have to play it off like I
Speaker 1: didn't do it, but I really know what happened. But
Speaker 1: it's gonna be fun. I'm excited. Um, good morning. Everyone
Speaker 1: in My name is Scotlet dejon Well at heart, I
Speaker 1: am at that and I could play Minia roles. I
Speaker 1: could be happy, I can be said, I can be
Speaker 1: hoholier than now, and of course I can get a
Speaker 1: little evil to you know, not at all, absolutely. I
Speaker 1: mean she made bad business decisions, including what she did
Speaker 1: to me. Um. The renovations were terrible. Everything that Dakoda
Speaker 1: did really messed things up. And like you said, prior
Speaker 1: to you saw her walking to the firehouse. Yes, and
Speaker 1: that's what made you certain that it was missul f
Speaker 1: At You well, I know for in fact it was her.
Speaker 1: I mean it was her, are her business. She would
Speaker 1: be the only one there at the time, with the
Speaker 1: exception of me, because you know I know how to
Speaker 1: move around. That's exactly right, Mr j. Young. You know
Speaker 1: it was her because she's the only firefighter that you know.
Speaker 1: I just connected to Chucky's and the firehouse. Well, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't say the firefighting part was really what gave me
Speaker 1: the ammunition I needed to know that it was her.
Speaker 1: But like I said, when I followed her to the building,
Speaker 1: followed her out of the building, that kind of thing
Speaker 1: I made sense. Yes, I was able to tell that
Speaker 1: she was a firefighter. My name is Audrey. About the
Speaker 1: last room, I feel really confident about the last time
Speaker 1: was amazing. You know that thank you, thank you, you know,
Speaker 1: like it was I'm being so serious. The judges comments,
Speaker 1: didn't know, just like he said, some good stuff. But
Speaker 1: like I'm very proud of your clothing you thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you. I try to think y'all, the amount of
Speaker 1: improvement you've shown since like the very first time you
Speaker 1: gave a clothing, Like when I say exponential, Like no,
Speaker 1: the way you told the story, like I saw you
Speaker 1: make the adjudgments that I suggested last night, and it
Speaker 1: was it was, it was well done. Thank you. Okay.
Speaker 1: I know earlier I said I was really nervous to
Speaker 1: the point of crime. But like after I went through
Speaker 1: my first direct I know, I know, it was my
Speaker 1: first cross, I was like so excited, like I felt
Speaker 1: so comfortable, and I was like, I'm ready to do
Speaker 1: it again. The Annihilat, Yes, we've given her a line name.
Speaker 1: This is the Annihilator speaking because of Katrina. Like, some
Speaker 1: of my best friends in Houston are from New Orleans,
Speaker 1: and you know, we see a lot of New Orleans
Speaker 1: elements and a lot of things that people in Houston
Speaker 1: do because so much of Houston's population are people who
Speaker 1: were displaced, you know, from New Orleans. So my dad
Speaker 1: is the founding minister of the pastor at Joy Cathedral
Speaker 1: UM in Houston, Texas. You know, people already know who
Speaker 1: he is, especially in the church. Everyone knows who he is. Yeah, yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: they're here. Good morning, day being well aboutself. DeAndre bell Is,
Speaker 1: My name is Jason, Nice to meet you. Good morning,
Speaker 1: DeAndre bell Is. My name sir. Come on in, thank you, yes, sir. Uh,
Speaker 1: Let's walk through Uh. Through the kitchen. We have to
Speaker 1: make shift. Excuse me, just follow me with make shifts.
Speaker 1: Since we're still in the COVID environment. I still don't
Speaker 1: feel comfortable, uh, meeting face to face. I shot at
Speaker 1: ten fifty nine, and we're normally done by eleven. My
Speaker 1: wife will start playing behind the curtain, and then my
Speaker 1: son and my daughter will give me directions on time
Speaker 1: and we'll ahead records play and that's it. What time
Speaker 1: is it? Okay, okay, see the gonna lie. I will
Speaker 1: bless the Lord at all times. His praise shall continually
Speaker 1: be in my mouth. My soul shall make her boast
Speaker 1: in the Lord. The umble shall hear that rove and
Speaker 1: be glad, old magnified. The Lord with me, and let
Speaker 1: us exalt his name together. We're grateful and thankful to
Speaker 1: God that he has allowed us this another day, another hour,
Speaker 1: another privilege, and another opportunity. Then we might gather before
Speaker 1: his presence to call upon His holy and righteous name.
Speaker 1: I'm grateful and thankful to God. We were still in
Speaker 1: our first home, and so DeAndre was two years old.
Speaker 1: He grabs a microphone and he starts screaming, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,
Speaker 1: and his mother says, DeAndre, you're going to be hoarse.
Speaker 1: So he screams, and he's preaching. And because he was
Speaker 1: screaming Jesus so much, he lost his voice. He put
Speaker 1: his microphone down, drank out of his sippy cup, then
Speaker 1: put the sippy cup down, picked his microphone back up,
Speaker 1: and he started continuing. Yes, he's always been very intelligent.
Speaker 1: We call him wise beyond his years, just because if
Speaker 1: you hold a conversation with him, even I will have
Speaker 1: to tell him, okay, dumb that down a little bit.
Speaker 1: You know, use layman terms with me. I'm your momma,
Speaker 1: use layman terms and so. But he's always been been
Speaker 1: that kid. DeAndre is just he's just always a character.
Speaker 1: He's always been a character. My head, I hear music.
Speaker 1: Over my head, I hear music. There must be a
Speaker 1: God somewhere. And even if your instrument has gotten down
Speaker 1: to only one string, if you can still make music,
Speaker 1: you can still red joice because of what God has
Speaker 1: done for you. Granted, brothers and sisters, our lives may
Speaker 1: not line up with the direction that we think they
Speaker 1: should line up, but all in all, you and I
Speaker 1: should be able to rejoice that God has given us
Speaker 1: another chance to get it right. He wanted to be
Speaker 1: a lawyer. My dad wanted to go to law school,
Speaker 1: and he was called to preach instead. And it was
Speaker 1: crazy because over the past summer, he said, DeAndre, it's
Speaker 1: amazing to me how I couldn't do what I wanted
Speaker 1: to do. But God has led you to do the thing,
Speaker 1: the kind of things that I want to do. And
Speaker 1: not only that, you've been led to not only be
Speaker 1: a lawyer, but to preach as well. So now you
Speaker 1: are doing two fold the things that I am doing.
Speaker 1: You know, Father God, You've given each of us a
Speaker 1: distinct and succinct talent. Father God, You've given us each
Speaker 1: an element of this case that we can argue to
Speaker 1: the best of our ability. So we thank you for
Speaker 1: the God. We thank you for the objections, the rules
Speaker 1: of evidence, the case, the witnesses, the attorneys, the the openings,
Speaker 1: the closings that directs the cross as we thank you,
Speaker 1: Father God, for putting these words in our minds and
Speaker 1: our hearts and in our souls. Father God, so that
Speaker 1: we may not only show them who we are, but
Speaker 1: show them who you are. Father God, you have made
Speaker 1: this team all that it is, Father God, And so
Speaker 1: we thank you once more, Father God. If there's anything
Speaker 1: I forget to ask, please don't neglect an answering for
Speaker 1: is in your dollar's son Jesus name, We pray Amen.
Speaker 1: So today we're celebrating the University of Home Comedy Parade,
Speaker 1: and so we're all excited about this our first parass
Speaker 1: from the season. When I say season of the last
Speaker 1: two years, you know, because of to COVID everything was canceled.
Speaker 1: So we have a big parade and celebrating the coming
Speaker 1: back of Gentillion, coming back to the city of New
Speaker 1: Orleans and all the kids coming in. Yes, the WiFi
Speaker 1: pass were the same with the app sign and we're
Speaker 1: definitely still practicing. Is that to adjust because of home
Speaker 1: Coming week events, So we're having an extended three hour
Speaker 1: practice tonight, so we're still doing the work. This weekend
Speaker 1: is our Regionals tournament. Unfortunately was put online due to
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen. But um, this is the tournament that decides
Speaker 1: like if our season is over and not basically if
Speaker 1: we make it past this will go to like Nationals
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. I'm kind of bummed because I
Speaker 1: really wish you would have been in person, but it
Speaker 1: is a lot of pressure now because like this is
Speaker 1: my last shot at it. She's gonna switch out with you. Okay,
Speaker 1: like you know how on defense, you're on your on
Speaker 1: defense and Taylor, so can Taylor use yours? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: thought no, which to DeAndre? Please tell me you got
Speaker 1: the own flock computer? Okay, where's I Let me put
Speaker 1: it together. We are putting together ring lights so that
Speaker 1: we can have good lighting for the competition. I'm excited
Speaker 1: because we're ready to We're ready to kick some behind.
Speaker 1: Can someone test grain sharing please? That's it. The defense
Speaker 1: is ready to procede your honor first, and are I
Speaker 1: would like to acknowledge that Dakota Settler is constructively present
Speaker 1: throughout trial today and it's constructively wearing a red tie. Second.
Speaker 1: Here on, I'm entering a character events form which both
Speaker 1: parties have signed on the chat. In terms of the
Speaker 1: level of experience collectively, this is the most experienced team
Speaker 1: that we've had, and so um, this is our very
Speaker 1: best chance to make it back to the championship, and
Speaker 1: I like our chances. I was talking to some of
Speaker 1: them even today. I was like, well, it's our last rodeo,
Speaker 1: like this, this is it, and um, I would very
Speaker 1: much like for them to experience that joy. I mean,
Speaker 1: you think about you do all of this work, this
Speaker 1: all this excitement around you know, a piece of plastic essentially,
Speaker 1: this trophy that you get, but it represents so much
Speaker 1: more than that, particularly for those students who have been
Speaker 1: on this team all four years of their college experience.
Speaker 1: It represents such a huge part of their deal and experience.
Speaker 1: They've invested a lot of time, energy, and effort in
Speaker 1: an activity that they get no academic credit for, they
Speaker 1: don't get paid for. They've invested a tremendous amount, and
Speaker 1: I would just love for them to be able to
Speaker 1: have the experience of making it too the championship before
Speaker 1: they leave here. So I'm a senior. I'm actually applying
Speaker 1: to law school right now. I made this document when
Speaker 1: I was nineteen years old. I'm twenty one now. Before
Speaker 1: they were like maybe eighty schools on here, and I've
Speaker 1: researched every single one until I was able to narrow
Speaker 1: it down to fifteen. Okay, So in this document, I've
Speaker 1: listed the institution, the rank of the institution. It was
Speaker 1: in portant to me that I had some institutions that
Speaker 1: could take me anywhere I wanted to go, and then
Speaker 1: I have these schools in green because my pre law
Speaker 1: advisor thought that I should look into them to see
Speaker 1: my chances of getting a full right scholarship. So that's
Speaker 1: why I have those highlighted. But as far as the
Speaker 1: schools that I'm applying to UM in one category, as
Speaker 1: far as where I think I could get the most
Speaker 1: money is FORDAM Texas A and M Northeastern University of Miami, St.
Speaker 1: John's and Howard. All of those have great financial aid
Speaker 1: programs based on my score, and they also have UM
Speaker 1: a wide variety of individuals that look like me. I
Speaker 1: think the diversity is great at the schools. They have
Speaker 1: great clinics, and I would be happy going to either
Speaker 1: of them. N YU actually has this great clinic UM
Speaker 1: by Brian Stevenson who who runs it, and they do
Speaker 1: a lot of death penalty work capital punishment cases. And
Speaker 1: after reading his book Just Mercy and realizing how how
Speaker 1: we treat people involved in the chrominal justice system, specifically
Speaker 1: those who were even the death penalty or on death
Speaker 1: row UM, I was really able to connect with it
Speaker 1: and not only see the humanity and the people that
Speaker 1: he was talking about, but I wanted to introduce that
Speaker 1: concept into the legal field. Even though there are empathetic lawyers,
Speaker 1: I don't think there are enough. People always say, UM, well,
Speaker 1: how can you defend these types of people or these
Speaker 1: types of people deserve this? And it's really not that simple,
Speaker 1: So UM, I would love to learn more from him.
Speaker 1: UM and plus n y U s I think the
Speaker 1: highest ranked criminal law program in the country. So as
Speaker 1: far as the schools that I think can open the
Speaker 1: most doors, those are gonna be Harvard, Columbia, Chicago, n
Speaker 1: y U, Georgetown, U T Austin, Boston University, University of
Speaker 1: Southern California, and Emery. All of those schools have been
Speaker 1: to rank very highly when it comes to placing students
Speaker 1: in federal clerkships after after law school, which is a
Speaker 1: big deal. That's something that I'm interested in and I
Speaker 1: want the door to be open for me if I
Speaker 1: decided to walk through it. But my personal statement is
Speaker 1: mainly about a time in my life where I felt
Speaker 1: um that my voice wasn't being heard or that I
Speaker 1: was suppressing my feelings, and how through mock trial I
Speaker 1: was able to not only find my voice but realize
Speaker 1: what I wanted to do. Now that I regained it,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna trying to find a good part. Okay, here's
Speaker 1: one paragraph I can read. That same day, I signed
Speaker 1: up for something called mock trial, thinking I would learn
Speaker 1: a few things about speaking effectively. I began sitting in
Speaker 1: the backup practices and watching the student lawyers argue their cases.
Speaker 1: My coaches didn't let that fly for too long. They
Speaker 1: insisted I lead strategy discussions and present every side of
Speaker 1: the case until I knew the facts of the story
Speaker 1: like it were my own. The courtroom became the place
Speaker 1: where I felt the most comfortable. I learned that being
Speaker 1: a litigator isn't about the objections you make or how
Speaker 1: smart you sound. It's about the stories you tell. Usually
Speaker 1: le how long was yours? And start praying music. I
Speaker 1: think that's what she's trying to can I can catch
Speaker 1: a beat. I can catch a beat, But staying on it,
Speaker 1: that's another story. I feel like a lot of guys
Speaker 1: in this setup right now, I do that. Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna try to do this without crying. No. I was
Speaker 1: just telling Ms Friesen and some others that my freshman
Speaker 1: year on the team, I just remember being super nervous
Speaker 1: and just wanted to cry because I just didn't think
Speaker 1: I was ready, And then the tears that I have
Speaker 1: today is not from that place. I'm not anxious at all.
Speaker 1: I'm excited, and I'm proud of each and every one
Speaker 1: of y'all and the growth that I've seen on the team.
Speaker 1: Like I'm not even I'm here to show up one
Speaker 1: last time for you guys at regionals. But no, I
Speaker 1: know that it's been stressful. There's been tension on the team.
Speaker 1: There's been you know, times or some us wanted to
Speaker 1: quit and I didn't. I didn't mean to look at
Speaker 1: nobody in particularly, but you know, I'm just really excited
Speaker 1: for where you guys are at right now, and I
Speaker 1: can't wait to come back and be able to judge
Speaker 1: one of y'all's rounds and and just to see how
Speaker 1: far y'all have come. Oh Okay, that's it. That's it.
Speaker 1: Let's let's go in there and kick. But let's just
Speaker 1: win and do what we came here to do. Period. Hello,
Speaker 1: your honor, my name is Amya Ronsic, and alongside my
Speaker 1: co council DeAndre Cabell, the Second, Hello you, and Renee
Speaker 1: sime In. Hello your honor, we probably represent the Code
Speaker 1: Sutcliffe in this matter. And you don't know what debris
Speaker 1: or evidence they moved away from Jalen And no, I'm
Speaker 1: not aware I was outside. And you also didn't interview
Speaker 1: these officers after your investigation, did you. No, you also
Speaker 1: didn't require them to write a report about what debris
Speaker 1: was removed. Relevance and Michael pet was a tragic objection
Speaker 1: yard into facts not in evidence or testifying to facts
Speaker 1: not in evidence. You explain your objection, Yes, your honor
Speaker 1: opposing counsel is eliciting information, hearsay information from an article
Speaker 1: that has not yet been entered. Okay, I gotta get
Speaker 1: ready to help him turn off the lights. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: stand in my spot. Do you want him to get
Speaker 1: on yours? Okay? Do the tester DeAndre come back in
Speaker 1: the room in the back of the room. Um, I
Speaker 1: have to switch the lights off. Um. DeAndre has a
Speaker 1: little demonstra if he does. Um for his closing. Because
Speaker 1: the whole contention is that the witnesses they bought to
Speaker 1: make an identification possibly couldn't have made it because they
Speaker 1: claimed somebody in a black in all black with a
Speaker 1: black hoodie pulled up at a three or fourth angle
Speaker 1: with the lights off is obviously this person. So he's
Speaker 1: gonna go fifty feet away with a black countee on it,
Speaker 1: We're gonna turn the lights off. Very much as a
Speaker 1: Hail Mary, your honor, opposing counsel members of the jury,
Speaker 1: at the beginning of today's trial, you heard my co
Speaker 1: counsel come before you and tell you that the prosecution
Speaker 1: did not wait for the smoke to clear. And now
Speaker 1: by the end of trial you've seen that before the Chuggy,
Speaker 1: the smoke of the Chuggy's fire was able to dissipate,
Speaker 1: before a clear picture of what actually happened on July
Speaker 1: was made prevalent, before thorough investigation was completed, the prosecution
Speaker 1: rushed to try and convict my client the code of
Speaker 1: Sutcliffe of aggravated arsent. And so don't believe it wait
Speaker 1: for the smoke too clear, because had the prosecution waited
Speaker 1: for the smoke to clear, they would have understood that
Speaker 1: a figure standing not five, not ten, not fifteen, not twenty,
Speaker 1: not thirty, not forty, but fifty feet away, standing at
Speaker 1: a three fours angle with a hoodie on their hood
Speaker 1: raised up and the lights off would have rendered a
Speaker 1: verdict in today's case of not guilty. Were good were
Speaker 1: good time, I'm loving you. I'm yes, Mr Bull that
Speaker 1: I love here like yes, indeed, that's go with me.
Speaker 1: That's definitely. Idn't laugh so bad. I'm so lu and
Speaker 1: I know you choke know no, no, no, was like
Speaker 1: he started that, I don't keep tabs on. I don't
Speaker 1: keep tab with that lady. I don't keep that woman.
Speaker 1: Don getting that on these comics with that judge laughing,
Speaker 1: am I asked you don't have eyes in the back
Speaker 1: of your head that he asked, right, I don't even
Speaker 1: know what lines like. I told this line. I said,
Speaker 1: I hate that question. But he loves No, he hate
Speaker 1: that question. People you just like this, he us, Oh no,
Speaker 1: he hate that up love That's what I'm like. That
Speaker 1: was good. That was good. That did That's where happens.
Speaker 1: That's real. That's real progress for the team. That's really
Speaker 1: that's real progress for the team because it's growth because certainly,
Speaker 1: like the trial was great, but the fact that y'all
Speaker 1: were a flappable, like, that's progress because y'all know how
Speaker 1: we do. I said, you see this judge is not
Speaker 1: here for objection arguments. You see this other team is
Speaker 1: not really objecting at all, Like I hope we sensed
Speaker 1: the temperature in the room and adjudge, and I think
Speaker 1: we did. Historically, Black colleges and universities across the country
Speaker 1: have been the target of several bomb threats. This year.
Speaker 1: Dillard University in New Orleans is the latest HBCU to
Speaker 1: get a bomb threat. Leaders say several law enforcement agencies
Speaker 1: were called in this morning and they're investor stigating where
Speaker 1: this threat came from. Stay with us here at w
Speaker 1: D s U as we continue to get updates on
Speaker 1: this developing story. Oh god, the fank is happening around
Speaker 1: Black his three months right, very much has it's giving.
Speaker 1: Clan now knows how to use the internet. It's giving.
Speaker 1: We can't burn crosses anymore, but we can still use
Speaker 1: a telephone. It's giving. New Grand Wizard is a young person?
Speaker 1: Shut up because that's very much truly. No. Do you
Speaker 1: think they follow Robert's rules of order? At the meeting,
Speaker 1: they was like somebody was like, okay, um, we have
Speaker 1: a motion on the floor to do these seven schools
Speaker 1: this week. Um can I um get a second? Can
Speaker 1: I get a second? Point of order? Yes, I Grand
Speaker 1: Wizard recognizes brother Jeffrey. Next point of business. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be honest. We've been get bomb threats probably since I
Speaker 1: was in middle school. Come on now, very much getting
Speaker 1: old white supresso at this point. If I get bombed,
Speaker 1: I'm going to heaven. I've had um very racist experience.
Speaker 1: My first racist experience in the streetports was in the
Speaker 1: fourth grade at the elementary school. My grandmother was a
Speaker 1: cafeteria manager at and the teacher was going around in
Speaker 1: the circle asking if everybody with their nicknames were and
Speaker 1: my nickname is KK in my household, and so I
Speaker 1: said money names KK, And of course she made a
Speaker 1: joke about the KKK. Me. Yes, she did, in front
Speaker 1: of a room full of black children. And I went
Speaker 1: home laughing about it because I was a kid. I
Speaker 1: didn't know about the KKK in the fourth grade, you know.
Speaker 1: And so I go home and telling the joke, nobody's laughing,
Speaker 1: and they have to sit me down and talk to
Speaker 1: me about racism. Hey, granny turning it, turn your screen down,
Speaker 1: so lady, But yeah, perfect, just like that, like the Okay,
Speaker 1: my name is Carlo Wis Douglas and I am Caitlin
Speaker 1: douiness food mother. The neighborhood I grew up in was
Speaker 1: it was good. It was basically, um, I guess, more
Speaker 1: like a family or any different families living in that
Speaker 1: little neighborhood at a little small neighborhood, and everybody got along.
Speaker 1: We went to school together, and most of them, you know,
Speaker 1: after they grew up finish high school, they just left
Speaker 1: and went to the different states. I was attached to
Speaker 1: her hip all the time. That's my best friend right there.
Speaker 1: She knows. Um, She's amazing. She's very protective, very supportive.
Speaker 1: She's the matriarch of our family. UM. And you know,
Speaker 1: you guys, you're all were talking to an angel right now.
Speaker 1: So I meet you all to cherish the moment. And
Speaker 1: I'm doing because she is literally the reason why I'm
Speaker 1: still on the earth. You know. I talked to her
Speaker 1: as I got older about during that time I was
Speaker 1: having suicidal thoughts as a kid, you know, And it's
Speaker 1: hard to talk with her about it now because she
Speaker 1: doesn't want to talk about it, but because it's like
Speaker 1: she wanted to protect me. She end up her mother
Speaker 1: end up transferring her old to the school where I
Speaker 1: worked at, and about me working there, they would bring
Speaker 1: her up to your men and I'm like, hey, what
Speaker 1: are you're doing? And she would tell me this and
Speaker 1: that not because that was real smart, and I think
Speaker 1: that was probably it's okay, I'll take your time, okay.
Speaker 1: And that was basically it. Before I came to school
Speaker 1: to do it, to like finish my bachelor's I found
Speaker 1: all my grandmother and my mom kept very thorough records
Speaker 1: and documented it all the encounters I ever had in
Speaker 1: in elementary school. They kept them. And so I sat
Speaker 1: in the bathroom with the door closed in my grandma's
Speaker 1: house and I started reading it and I just started crying,
Speaker 1: like I just I just just crying in control because
Speaker 1: I just I never understood what our kids were so
Speaker 1: cruel to me. And uh, she was good and she
Speaker 1: grew up to Ben. She just kept going. She never stopped,
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Speaker 1: got a Turney and she's gonna be good at the
Speaker 1: thing and other people, and she's going to always stand
Speaker 1: up for where she believes in. I am um heavily
Speaker 1: involved in activism back home in Streeport, Louisiana. Like we
Speaker 1: just had a police chief. Um stepped down resigned, thank God.
Speaker 1: After God knows how long we were protesting this aladerity
Speaker 1: for George Floyd, but we were really protesting for Tommy
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Speaker 1: that the issues you see on television are happening right
Speaker 1: now at the local level. So the city of street
Speaker 1: Port faces its own issues with police brutality. Therefore, we
Speaker 1: the people which to create policies that encourage accountability within
Speaker 1: the street Port Police Department, make sure they serve and
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Speaker 1: the police, government and the public they serve. To construct
Speaker 1: and implement a Citizens Review Board that is independent from
Speaker 1: the police department to handle any investigations of crimes involving
Speaker 1: law enforcement. Whenever harriful methods are employed, to require SPD
Speaker 1: applicants to test for a place it racial bias, The
Speaker 1: creation and implementation of a good neighbor policy which will
Speaker 1: create immunity for anyone who saves a human being from,
Speaker 1: but not limited to being put being poe, assaulted, or
Speaker 1: murdered by the police. In occorrence with Lauren v. District
Speaker 1: of Columbia and the duty to Rescue doctrine, we encourage
Speaker 1: you to accept this challenge and show the world the
Speaker 1: power we have when we stand this one and fight
Speaker 1: for justice for all. My grandmother is the person that
Speaker 1: I can always go to. She really instilled to meet
Speaker 1: what equity is, what equality is, and how nobody deserves
Speaker 1: to be mistreated. Everybody deserves to be treated with love
Speaker 1: and respect. And so you know, Greeny, thank you for that.
Speaker 1: I really love you, Bottle with my heart. You always know.
Speaker 1: I always tell you everything I do is because of
Speaker 1: you in our family or what our family leans to it.
Speaker 1: So I love you, Thank you. I love you too.
Speaker 1: But heyway, I think it were really good yesterday. I
Speaker 1: think yesterday it was nice. Um. I got called charming
Speaker 1: by an old white man as my Gilani. I was like, okay, cool, Um,
Speaker 1: I don't know how to feel about this, but that
Speaker 1: was nice. Um. I think I think yesterday yesterday it
Speaker 1: went pretty good. So um, you know I was telling
Speaker 1: Yandre this, I said, I think the round three tails
Speaker 1: us a lot. So the team is going blind this week.
Speaker 1: And you probably know this because I'm sure you've asked
Speaker 1: how y'all doing, and nobody knows the answer. We went
Speaker 1: against uh University of Pennsylvania, Fine School, UM with a
Speaker 1: very competitive mock trial team. Even their B team is competitive.
Speaker 1: I'm regularly makes it to the championship. And so what
Speaker 1: that tells us is that that was that was the
Speaker 1: level of competition where we were at this point in
Speaker 1: the regionals this weekend. So so I'm just saying, let's
Speaker 1: we're not gonna lay down on round four. It's it's
Speaker 1: too it's too important. It could be it could be
Speaker 1: the thing that makes a difference. Your evidence will show
Speaker 1: that as Chucky's burned and smoldered, the defendant watched as
Speaker 1: their financial burdens disappeared with the smoke in the air.
Speaker 1: And as the prosecution, we believe that in old order
Speaker 1: to uphold the integrity of our great city, we must
Speaker 1: hold the defendant accountable for their actions. Imagine with me,
Speaker 1: if you will, you're on your way to this very
Speaker 1: courtroom today and you're about to step up off your porch.
Speaker 1: You look down to the ground and you see that
Speaker 1: it is wet, there are water droplets on your car,
Speaker 1: there are water droplets on the grass, and the sky
Speaker 1: is gray. Now, because of that evid you don't have
Speaker 1: to pull off your phone to check the weather. After
Speaker 1: see it's just rained. You can reasonably conclude it hats.
Speaker 1: You can apply that scenario to this very case today,
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, this was an unreliable investigation. And to
Speaker 1: top it all off, Detective Weber came to the stand
Speaker 1: and told you that all of this was unnecessary. You're
Speaker 1: at this time we would like the publishings of its seventy,
Speaker 1: which has already been pre entered into evidence to the jury.
Speaker 1: This is a report from the five point mutual insurance
Speaker 1: who owns a fire at policy taken out by the defendant,
Speaker 1: stating on August two, the day after the fire, the
Speaker 1: defendant filed a claim for the one point five million
Speaker 1: dollars and they just denied the claim. And relating to
Speaker 1: this exact exhibit, we would like to point the court's
Speaker 1: attention to I just wanted to say, y'all, I know
Speaker 1: we were frustrated for round two, we were frustrated for
Speaker 1: round three, but now it's like a new trial. We
Speaker 1: put that behind us. Um. I know, as a leader,
Speaker 1: sometimes it's hard for me to stuff my feelings down
Speaker 1: and be like, no, we still got this. And y'all
Speaker 1: obviously saw me break down who during the break but
Speaker 1: you know, I'm human or whatever or whatever, and I
Speaker 1: just I think my main thing is not because we
Speaker 1: did bad or that it was like something that I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm doubting you or anything, but it's really I just
Speaker 1: want to see that everything that we worked for really
Speaker 1: plays out the way that it should. And I know
Speaker 1: I annoyed a lot of y'all this year. I was
Speaker 1: hounding y'all. I was asking y'all to do things y'all
Speaker 1: didn't want to do, but I think it was for
Speaker 1: the greater good. I know it was for the greater good.
Speaker 1: And I think that it's time to lay it all
Speaker 1: out on the table for this last round. I have
Speaker 1: full confidence that we can take both ballots. So I'm
Speaker 1: trying not to cry because I like, I did spend
Speaker 1: an hour on my makeup, But UM, just keep that
Speaker 1: in mind when there's an objection battle, when another attorney
Speaker 1: is winning and you're not, when a judge doesn't seem
Speaker 1: like she's invested to be here. Um, keep that in mind,
Speaker 1: because our our purpose is greater. We're here to get
Speaker 1: ten points on everything we do. So that being said, DeAndre,
Speaker 1: you could just do a quick little prayer and then
Speaker 1: we could get started right here. Close your eyes. Then,
Speaker 1: fatherly comes right now once again saying thank you, Father God,
Speaker 1: thank you for bringing us us far. And now I
Speaker 1: ask to your strength, your guidance, your resilience, and your love,
Speaker 1: your passion, your faith, Father God, so that we use
Speaker 1: all of that in this last round. Give us the opening, is,
Speaker 1: give us the closest, give us the victory and all
Speaker 1: that we seek to do, Father God, for we declare
Speaker 1: victory right now in the name of Jesus, Father God.
Speaker 1: We declare going to ords. We declare going to nationals
Speaker 1: right now. And so I asked that you make it
Speaker 1: so far the God Him, the name of Jesus. There's
Speaker 1: anything I can get to ask, Please don't elect answering,
Speaker 1: poison your dollar's sun name. We pray man, okay, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna go ahead with the closing your arguments, this
Speaker 1: frun said, because how you pronounce it? Yes, your honor, Okay,
Speaker 1: why don't you go ahead? May it please the court,
Speaker 1: opposing counsel members of the jury. On August first, two
Speaker 1: thousand twenty, Detective Webber responded to a call that Chuggy's
Speaker 1: Barn restaurant was on fire. He learned that this bar
Speaker 1: belonged to the defendant and was ensured for one million dollars.
Speaker 1: And these damages that we've shown you today show you
Speaker 1: exactly how that fire erupted. We learned that the defendant
Speaker 1: burned his own her own building for money. But to
Speaker 1: burn a building for money is a crime here in Midlands,
Speaker 1: a crime called aggravated arson. And every witness we brought
Speaker 1: to you, and every piece of evidence we've shown you,
Speaker 1: was to prove that the defendant is the woman who
Speaker 1: committed this crime. We had to prove three elements to you.
Speaker 1: One that the defendant committed an act of arson with
Speaker 1: the purpose to defraud, Two that defendant acted knowingly, and
Speaker 1: three that the defendant created a substantial risk of serious
Speaker 1: physical harm to emergency personnel Jalen Williams. We had to
Speaker 1: prove these three things to you beyond a reasonable doubt,
Speaker 1: which basically means that by the end of this trial,
Speaker 1: if you can reasonably conclude that the only person who
Speaker 1: did this crime was the defendant, and we've done our job.
Speaker 1: They want you to forget that their family is counting
Speaker 1: on us to do what's just. They want you to
Speaker 1: forget that their family wakes up every single day hoping
Speaker 1: that they'll see their son again, that they want to
Speaker 1: believe that this is all a dream, that they cry
Speaker 1: at the thought of someone else taking over his locker
Speaker 1: or his seat at the dinner table. Members of the jury,
Speaker 1: the real victim is not here today. The villain in
Speaker 1: today's case is the defendant. The defendant is the person
Speaker 1: with the plan. The defendant is the person with the motive.
Speaker 1: The defendant is the person who, the day after the fire,
Speaker 1: was not even enough time to warned their business requested
Speaker 1: at one point five million dollars in full. Members of
Speaker 1: the jury, do what's justin today's case. We've done our job.
Speaker 1: We've proven these elements to you beyond a reasonable doubt.
Speaker 1: So now it's your time, your moment, to do what's
Speaker 1: right in today's case, and to show the defendant that
Speaker 1: when they burned their building, they can't get away with it.
Speaker 1: We must hold them accountable, find them guilty. Thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you. That's yes, that's they were so good. Oh
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Speaker 1: team in six wins with a c s at sixteen
Speaker 1: and a half, a p d of plus thirty nine
Speaker 1: team twelve six. I oh oh. We're hardly three months
Speaker 1: into and already our nation has seen a spate of
Speaker 1: hate crime. Dr kimbro Good, afternoon, Chairman Durbin, ranking Member Grassly,
Speaker 1: and thank you for the invitation. Members of the Committee
Speaker 1: on the Judiciary and a Special Louisiana Acknowledgment to Senator Kennedy.
Speaker 1: My name is Walter Kimber, and I am the president
Speaker 1: of DIALINGT University in New Orleans. I am in my
Speaker 1: eighteenth year as an HBCU president. Since the beginning of January,
Speaker 1: we have seen an unprecedented number of threats against historically
Speaker 1: black colleges and universities. For all practical purposes, every HBCU
Speaker 1: has been threatened. These threats have disrupted normal operations, causing
Speaker 1: classes to be canceled or hastily moved online, unseverled students
Speaker 1: and parents already weary from the two year toll of COVID,
Speaker 1: and in cities like New Orleans disrupted last fall by
Speaker 1: a hurricane which left an entire major American city without
Speaker 1: power for days, these threats take an even heavier toll.
Speaker 1: We need federal law enforcement agencies to redouble their efforts
Speaker 1: to catch the wolves. Well look at that so much
Speaker 1: excitement coming from Dillard University. This is the more Trial
Speaker 1: team and they are on the road to National's ladies
Speaker 1: and gentlemen, and get this, They're going to compete in
Speaker 1: the opening round Championship series. Out of twenty four teams
Speaker 1: in the region, Dillard is one of six to advance. Uh,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go ahead and get started, and I will
Speaker 1: just for a moment, UM, take just a second to
Speaker 1: say welcome to everybody. UM, we are really excited to
Speaker 1: have you all in Memphis. We're really excited to be
Speaker 1: here in the courthouse. UM. I did want to just
Speaker 1: say a couple of things about this courthouse. UM, it
Speaker 1: is a historic building. You might have recognized some of
Speaker 1: the spaces in this building. It's been featured in a
Speaker 1: lot of feature films, UM, including The Firm, The Client,
Speaker 1: Walk the Line. Basically any legal movie that's been set
Speaker 1: in Memphis has probably had some filming done here. UM.
Speaker 1: And uh, we hope that you all enjoy kind of
Speaker 1: get to getting to live your John Grisham fantasy this weekend.
Speaker 1: I made a post to LinkedIn actually last night using
Speaker 1: the picture that we took on the the courthouse, and
Speaker 1: I mentioned how the atmosphere of the courthouse was far
Speaker 1: different than's something I've experienced from mock trial before. The
Speaker 1: Army Bailey Courthouse is named after a black man, so
Speaker 1: let's start there. The amount of history that that is
Speaker 1: held when you have a bunch of black kids standing
Speaker 1: on the steps of a courthouse named for a black
Speaker 1: man in the city that is so historic to the
Speaker 1: civil rights of black people. Um, it's it's very powerful.
Speaker 1: So with that we can go ahead and flip the
Speaker 1: corin Mike have that it is tails. Our next card
Speaker 1: from the D group is Team twelve sixteen Dillard and
Speaker 1: from Group A one Northwestern. So those are your first
Speaker 1: round parents and we're getting the boards made right now
Speaker 1: that will have room numbers on them. My name is
Speaker 1: Anna Eldridge. UM. I am the director of mock Trial
Speaker 1: and pre law Advising at Rhodes College and we are
Speaker 1: the tournament host for the Memphis Opening Round Championship Series.
Speaker 1: So my responsibility was to run the tournament. You know,
Speaker 1: everybody at this point has already competed in invitation, as
Speaker 1: they've already competed at regionals, and you know, this is
Speaker 1: the tournament where you know, everybody in the field is
Speaker 1: really strong. Um, the stakes are really high because everybody
Speaker 1: just really wants to be in that final field of
Speaker 1: forty eight and the goal is to pick the best
Speaker 1: six teams out of each field to advance to the
Speaker 1: final forty eight teams. In a browle, you know, you've
Speaker 1: got the top six ranked teams in the country that
Speaker 1: are at this field are in the A group, and
Speaker 1: some of the teams that are here for the first time,
Speaker 1: um that have not competed at this tournament before, not
Speaker 1: going to nationals before. Teams like Dillard are ranked in
Speaker 1: in the D group. Uh, they're gonna be matching up
Speaker 1: against the A group in round one and I think
Speaker 1: that that's gonna that's gonna make for interesting matchups. And Uh,
Speaker 1: then as the tournament goes on, we'll keep hitting different
Speaker 1: teams in different categories to see ultimately who has the
Speaker 1: highest number of ballots. So how many judges thought you
Speaker 1: were the better team against each of your opponents. Gotta
Speaker 1: rock with you, all right? This team, best team, this team,
Speaker 1: best team, best, this team, this team, lack team black,
Speaker 1: this strong team, strong Tea, this team, this sea, strong team.
Speaker 1: I love my love. I love my team. I love
Speaker 1: my team, Love my team. I love my team. I
Speaker 1: love my team. I love my I love my team,
Speaker 1: I love my team, I love my tea. I love
Speaker 1: my team, love my tea. I love my love my tea.
Speaker 1: Let's get in there and do what we came here.
Speaker 1: We're by. Let's gonna try the case your honor, opposing counsel,
Speaker 1: members of the journey, may it please the court follow
Speaker 1: the hoods. On August first, Jaylen Williams of Midlands Center
Speaker 1: firefighter heard the alarms of the fire station ringing, meaning
Speaker 1: that it was time for him to once again risk
Speaker 1: his life. With no second thought and no hesitation, he
Speaker 1: grabbed his gear and rushed onto the fire truck. And
Speaker 1: unfortunately you will learn that that search and rescue mission
Speaker 1: did end in one cavity. And on that very day,
Speaker 1: Midland's lost a hero and a citizen, the most important,
Speaker 1: a family loss of fire. The suns y'all lost, Jay Williams,
Speaker 1: there's no regrets in here. That's right, it ain't nothing.
Speaker 1: Ain't no regrets be here. I love y'all so much,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna be right in the pews behind you
Speaker 1: and crazy show you right when y'all getting up there
Speaker 1: and getting I'm gonna be right my little sermon though
Speaker 1: in the back of my bulletin. And let's be on
Speaker 1: a great shot. Let's pluming the performance. Let's put on
Speaker 1: a great case. I don't see where we walking, but
Speaker 1: we made a full service back to the bend. And
Speaker 1: I thought about that, um I just thought about her
Speaker 1: life is a full circle, you know, at the beginning
Speaker 1: of life, begin of life, And I thought about our
Speaker 1: coaches always say what we need to win, it's already
Speaker 1: inside of us what we need to win. It's already here.
Speaker 1: That was the begin talking now right now we're at
Speaker 1: the end and we're around four. But this is actually
Speaker 1: our beginning to get to the next chapter that we
Speaker 1: had and we just came back to it. So when
Speaker 1: y'all going to that ride, remember everything he needs to
Speaker 1: win is already to side you. That's important to y'all.
Speaker 1: Don't thank you time. You know, when we need to
Speaker 1: be here, we show it and and it ain't any
Speaker 1: days and it's coming back full circle. Renee and our
Speaker 1: name and i'd be with IMPOSTI I will not say
Speaker 1: y'all are younger than me here. Y'all really do inspire me.
Speaker 1: But the job I have, the leadership that I have,
Speaker 1: the confidence that I have, the struggles album overcoming with
Speaker 1: the l set and so much other things. Listen, this
Speaker 1: team is a god seeing I'm all all of y'all, everybody,
Speaker 1: thank you. I'm just very proud of y'all. Um. I'm
Speaker 1: not even as nervous as I was going into regionals.
Speaker 1: You know that was my last shot getting out of there,
Speaker 1: and now that we're here, I'm just excited for where
Speaker 1: we can go. I'm not nervous at all. I have
Speaker 1: full confidence in every one of y'all and I'm just
Speaker 1: I can't explain how much I'm proud of y'all. So
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, do to all of my face
Speaker 1: so we can motified. Yes, his wife has tolt your
Speaker 1: eye and um and attitude. Prayer, Father, God, for the
Speaker 1: millions of time, we thank you, thank you, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, and I cannot stop saying enough
Speaker 1: for all that you have done and all that you
Speaker 1: will do for this team. Thank you for the God.
Speaker 1: As we're going to this national season, I ask that
Speaker 1: you watch for everyone on this team. Everyone has given
Speaker 1: so much faunt with God. Everyone has lost a part
Speaker 1: of themselves to give to this team for us. A
Speaker 1: source Tempo. Tell the guys now, if there's anything for
Speaker 1: me to ask, please don't be the answering forcing your
Speaker 1: don wants son Jason and pro Man. She's good guy. Mike,
Speaker 1: your attorney stated, you're facing life in prison. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know how much time I got left. But I'm
Speaker 1: here for a good time, not a long time. You know.
Speaker 1: You're here today testifying on behalf of the prosecution. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and the prosecution has offered you a plea do that's
Speaker 1: how they told me yet, and that in that plea
Speaker 1: deal you may face ten to twenty years right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure I'll make it that long, but sure
Speaker 1: that's under the condition that you testify against the defendant,
Speaker 1: isn't that true? Yeah? They soon said they wanted me
Speaker 1: to help help back. And now I want to ask
Speaker 1: you about the night in question. You say you saw
Speaker 1: someone around twelve o'clock, right, Yes, I did. It was
Speaker 1: dark outside, it was it was around me night, but
Speaker 1: there were some street lights. They had a hoodie on,
Speaker 1: they did. It was a dark hoodie, dark clothes, and
Speaker 1: I was surprised it was so hot outside. As a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, the hood was up. Isn't that right?
Speaker 1: It was he must have been hot. Yeah, you saw
Speaker 1: this person for about one second, isn't that correct? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that sounds about right now as you observed. You said
Speaker 1: you were fifty feet away, isn't that right? Give or take? Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: you didn't see this person go through the back door
Speaker 1: of Chucky's right, No, I did not. You also didn't
Speaker 1: see anyone go through the front door. No, I can't
Speaker 1: see the front from the back. Thank you, you'renn arrive
Speaker 1: nothing further. Now, the defense does not disagree with the
Speaker 1: fact that arson indeed was committed in this case. But
Speaker 1: what we do disagree with is who did it? Members
Speaker 1: of the jury, the burden in today's case, the state's
Speaker 1: burdening today's cases proof beyond a reasonable doubt. That must
Speaker 1: mean they must prove each of the elements I just
Speaker 1: listened to you beyond that reasonable doubt, Members of the jury.
Speaker 1: That is the highest burden in our judicial system, and
Speaker 1: suffices to say they have failed to meet that burden.
Speaker 1: But members of the jury have to ask ourselves who
Speaker 1: saw was missing? Didn't see anyone go into or out
Speaker 1: of Chuckies missing, didn't see anyone go through the alloy missing,
Speaker 1: couldn't even see anyone if they were to have gone
Speaker 1: through the front because at the prosecution waited for the
Speaker 1: smoke to clear, they would have understood that someone wondering
Speaker 1: a random jacket one day with the hood raised upstanding,
Speaker 1: not five, not ten, not fifteen, not twenty, but fifty
Speaker 1: feet away with the hood raised and the light fall
Speaker 1: would have rendered a verdict in today's case of not guilty.
Speaker 1: Thank you. So I will begin with the team that
Speaker 1: finished with the best record. We had one team finished
Speaker 1: with seven wins zero losses in one time. He's team
Speaker 1: twelve sixteen. Shall we were ye yeah, yeah yeah, my
Speaker 1: chest like I can't, but I send in the evaluation
Speaker 1: for so let's let's go get these gos, go get
Speaker 1: this trophy. Let's go get her and even not run
Speaker 1: out of our Then we want the first shall be last,
Speaker 1: and the last I'll be with her. She's a sick
Speaker 1: We want first. We would see one first first place.
Speaker 1: We want first place, said, come in, come on, come on,
Speaker 1: s else. Okay, if this part of the thing is
Speaker 1: about to lose, it's gonna be a problem with black
Speaker 1: in the front. People want to black everyone not third.
Speaker 1: We are. So when we become talking number one of
Speaker 1: the names, and I have my songs pick picked out
Speaker 1: all the aby and green, nicky, my eyes on per
Speaker 1: per per per, let's go because we wipe your mom.
Speaker 1: We won. We want, we want, we want all right,
Speaker 1: So with that, um, if you all would indulge me,
Speaker 1: and we need to do a quick room change. Um,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go to room one sixty four, which we
Speaker 1: all are familiar with. This right here around the corner,
Speaker 1: you can leave if you need so, you can leave
Speaker 1: some of your things. So I've heard that this is
Speaker 1: possibly your last season. I think is that true? This
Speaker 1: is true? How does that make you feel? I mean,
Speaker 1: you clearly put more than just to check the box
Speaker 1: energy into this. Yeah, it's um, you know, mixed feelings
Speaker 1: for sure, I have. I mean, this has been just
Speaker 1: really like the blessing of a lifetime. I really have
Speaker 1: received so much from being in community with these students,
Speaker 1: um or being able to sort of walk along with
Speaker 1: them on this part of their journey, and to see
Speaker 1: the progress of this team, the collective and then the
Speaker 1: individuals who have passed this way. It has just been
Speaker 1: the blessing of a lifetime. You know, it is it is.
Speaker 1: It's sad. I guess I can use the word said,
Speaker 1: I do build some sense of sad. Is maybe maybe
Speaker 1: bitter sweet? Is it a little bitter sweet? Yeah? Bitter sweet? Um,
Speaker 1: Because this has been so much of my life for
Speaker 1: you know, fair a fair amount of time. Um, The
Speaker 1: thing that is sweet about it is just seeing the growth. Um.
Speaker 1: People outside the team on the campus know that, like,
Speaker 1: oh wow, you're on the motrol team. They know that
Speaker 1: that means something serious, Like the team has a reputation
Speaker 1: on campus like no, they are serious and they are
Speaker 1: good and it means something to them, and it means
Speaker 1: something on the campus. And I think we've got, you know,
Speaker 1: students who have bought into that to where, um, you
Speaker 1: know that will continue beyond this, beyond this year and
Speaker 1: beyond the season. This is fun. I mean it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's stressful, but it's fun. I mean, you know, getting
Speaker 1: these getting to the break we always tell them that
Speaker 1: all we can prepare you for us to break, because
Speaker 1: once you're in the breakgrounds, you're always going against the
Speaker 1: school that's as good as you are. There's so many variables.
Speaker 1: Did right now, we're just all hanging on for the
Speaker 1: Ryde that's next time on class Action. Class Action is
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