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Not only were there no complaints about 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:33.199 choosing a nominee from a specific demographic from the same corners, 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:36.360 but there was widespread praise of now Justice Barrett on 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:40.560 those grounds, with Republican lawmakers widely highlighting that they thought 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:44.200 this was positive for women in America. So take Senator 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:47.720 Cruz himself. He had no objection to Donald Trump promising 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:51.040 he'd nominated a woman in twenty twenty. Repeat, no objection 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:53.680 at all. In fact, he praised her on these grounds 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:57.240 during praised her on these grounds. The nominee during her 0:00:57.240 --> 0:00:59.720 confirmation hearing, Senator Cruz said quote, I think you're an 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:03.520 amaze using role model for little girls. What advice would 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:07.919 you give little girls? 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Senator First, 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:08.480 you're in trouble again. You have, You've gotten us both 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:12.440 in troubled again. Verdict some weeks ago was I think 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:18.160 the first podcast in American history to be referenced at 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:21.560 during a White House press briefing. Now I think we're 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:25.160 also the second podcast in history to be referenced because 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:30.800 of your comments on this show about the Supreme Court nominee. 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:35.360 You know, I gotta say, the media and Democrats are 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:39.360 really phenomenal. So we saw our last podcast. We talked 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:41.120 a lot about the Supreme Court, and you and I 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:45.119 talked about how it is offensive that Biden threw down 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:48.280 that the only criterion he would look look for in 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:51.240 nominating a replacement for Justice Briars that it had to 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:54.480 be a black woman, and the media lost their mind. 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:56.640 I mean, there were stories all over the country with 0:07:56.800 --> 0:07:59.680 media reporters saying this is terrible. And you know, you 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:03.840 look at Jensaki there, she actually engages in the logical 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:07.760 sleight of hand, were actually the illogical slight of hand 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:10.920 the left does often because she says, well, if you 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:14.640 don't support a quota, then you don't like whoever it is. 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:17.920 Whatever the characteristic is about the person that they're putting 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:21.600 a quota in place. So for example, she says, well, 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:25.240 when Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett, you said she was 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:27.360 a great role model for little girls. Well, of course 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:31.120 she is the fact that that you're saying someone's a 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:33.280 woman and a mom and an amazing scholar and an 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:37.000 amazing judge. Yes, she is a woman. We are aware 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:41.000 of that, you know. Do I think Clarence is Thomas's 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:45.600 life story growing up as a poor kid an African 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:51.520 American and Pinpoint Georgia overcoming poverty is an amazing story. Absolutely, yes. 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:56.840 But here's the weird thing. Democrats today, the modern left 0:08:56.880 --> 0:09:00.880 in this includes all of the corporate media. They embrace 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:05.600 discriminating based on race. They believe in discriminating based on race. 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:09.360 So there's a difference between nominating someone who's a woman, 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:11.600 or nominating someone who's a black man, or nominating someone 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:15.040 who's a black woman, and saying, at the outset in 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:19.480 this instance, ninety four percent of Americans are categorically ineligible. 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:23.760 It doesn't matter what their qualifications are I Joe Biden 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:26.080 won't consider them. And you know it's it's interesting, Michael, 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:30.600 if anyone else tried to do this in your business. 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:32.880 Let's say you're running a business. Let's say Daily Wire 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:37.920 puts up an ad we're looking for a copy editor. 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:42.199 Only black women need apply, or only Native American men 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:44.120 need to apply, or only white guys need to apply. 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:48.160 It would be obviously illegal, It would be obviously wrong. 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:52.760 And what Biden is doing here, and it's amazing. Look, 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:55.960 he could have done the exact same thing, said we're 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:58.800 going to look for qualified jurists, for someone with a 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:01.680 great record, and nominated someone who happened to be a 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:05.360 black woman, and that would have been perhaps have been 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:07.360 a wonderful thing. But but you know, one of the 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:12.240 tells that shows that Biden actually really doesn't care about 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:16.360 crossing that threshold. Do you know who is one of 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:19.480 the very few people on planet Earth to have ever 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:24.160 filibustered a black woman nominated to be a federal judge. 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:27.080 I think I know the answer. But who that would be? 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:31.840 Joseph Biden. So when George W. Bush nominated Janice Rogers Brown, 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:35.640 an incredibly qualified jurist, to the DC Circuit, the Federal 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:38.239 Court of Appeals. What did Joe Biden do he filibuster 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:42.360 not once twice. Not only Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer did it. 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:48.960 Dick Durbin did it. The Democrats all stood together and said, 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:52.120 not that black woman, because she actually believes in the 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:56.120 in the Constitution. We want a left wing activist. And 0:10:56.400 --> 0:11:00.960 it's bizarre that that it is become an article of 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:04.960 faith among the left, that discriminating based on race, doing 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:08.880 it explicitly at the beginning, we are only looking at 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:13.240 black women. That's that almost takes on like this, this 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:18.160 religious significance to them. They believe in it. And I 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:21.520 got to say, you know, I'm reminded of something Chief 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:25.160 Justice Roberts said. He said, it's a sordid business that's 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:29.079 diving us up by race and drawing distinctions. Look, when 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:31.360 we were putting this podcast together, I was looking for 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:33.920 a host. But I didn't say, give me an Italian yalee. 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:38.880 I said, let's let's find the host. Look at Italian yale. 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:41.839 I would have that would have limited the field somewhat 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:44.360 and we would have landed on you. Nonetheless, it did. 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:46.679 It's true. You know, I don't think anyone has ever 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:49.040 put out a call for an Italian Yale, they usually 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:51.400 they say no, thank you need not apply. But that's 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:55.480 true because it was color blind and degree blind casting. 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:57.880 I got to do it. And I think your point 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:01.920 is really important here, which is Joe Biden could have 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:06.760 fulfilled his campaign pledge and just happened to have nominated 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:09.240 a black woman. But what he did was so crass, 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:14.760 it was so tactless, and if it were any other industry, 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:17.520 it would be illegal to say I'm taking ninety four 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:19.599 percent of Americans out of the running here. If you 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:22.920 look at public polling, people don't like this. The majority 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:25.840 of Americans think that Joe Biden should have considered all 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:27.880 of the nominees, even if he ended up with a 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:31.040 black woman in the end. So I think the proof 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:33.120 of the pudding there is in the tasting. Yet seventy 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:36.880 six percent of Americans disagree with what Biden's doing. And 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:39.480 let's take for an example, because SAKI in the media, 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:41.920 this is their talking point. They're going to is oo, 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:44.679 Trump did this with Amy Coney Barrett. Well, actually no, 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:47.760 he didn't. So what they're referring to is that Trump 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:50.439 at a rally just a few days before he announced 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:54.600 Amy Coney Barrett's a nomination, said he's gonna he's gonna 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:57.800 nominate someone, and she's a woman. Well, yes, he was 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:00.400 aware she was a woman, so once he decided who 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:03.599 he was going to nominate, he acknowledged that she was 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:06.320 a woman. But if you think about how Trump did this, 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:07.920 Trump did it in a way There's never been a 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:10.960 president who's done it this way. He put out a list, 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:15.240 a detailed, specific list of potential Supreme Court nominees while 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:17.520 he was still a candidate for president. He had twenty 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:21.840 one names honored initially. Then he supplemented that list. He 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:24.120 added ten more names, and in fact, we've talked about 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:26.400 on the podcast how the ten more names he added 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:30.400 were a condition of my endorsing Trump. He added Mike 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:34.000 Lea to that list, and he added Neil Gorsuch to 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:36.440 that list. That was the second list, and then he 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:38.760 put out a third list, where among others, he stuck 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:40.480 me on it. So I think the third list got 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:45.520 much much weaker. The quality dropped dramatically, precipitously. But look 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:50.800 Trump's lists, they were racially diverse. They had men, women, 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:53.480 they had had folks of all sorts. Of different races, 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:57.920 but they were jurists selected because Trump believed they would 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:02.040 be faithful to the Constitution. They had jurispredential outlook that 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:07.160 would protect the Bill of Rights. And in this instance, 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:10.760 Amy Coney Barrett was the third nomination Trump had made, 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:15.559 So when Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh, he had interviewed Amy 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:17.760 Coney Barrett. He had sat down and interview her, so 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:20.600 she didn't get that slot, but he knew he liked her. 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:22.840 In fact, I talked to Trump at the time and 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:26.120 even after Kavanaugh, He's like, she's going to be the 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:30.000 next one. She's really good. As far as I know. 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:33.240 Joe Biden hasn't interviewed anyone. He doesn't know who any 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:37.000 of the potential candidates are. He's just said, if you're 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:42.880 not fitting my racial category and gender category, you are ineligible. 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:46.200 So Merritt Garland, no matter how good Merritt Garland might 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:49.280 be in his interview with Joe Biden, he's the wrong 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:53.920 skin color. And today we had a hearing in the 0:14:54.000 --> 0:15:00.400 Judiciary Committee. One of Biden's nominees is an Asian American 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:03.640 woman who's been nominated to be a federal judge, and 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:07.680 she wrote in law school. She was actually in law 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:09.040 school with me, a year behind me. I didn't know 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:10.400 her in law school, but she was a year behind 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:12.880 me in law school. She wrote this article that is 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:19.360 really radical, that is actually blasting Asian Americans who oppose 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:25.920 discrimination against Asian Americans. She calls them neo conservative Asian Americans, 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:31.119 and she explains that really woke Asian Americans should embrace 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:36.479 Harvard and Yale and other elite schools discriminating against Asian Americans. 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:38.480 That that's really a sign of being woke. And my 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:45.320 opening question, Michael, to her was is racial discrimination wrong? Now? 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:47.880 That ought to be a really simple question to answer. 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:53.400 Is racial discrimination wrong? Absolutely? Hell yes. She refused to 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:56.680 answer it. She wouldn't answer it. She said, well, the 0:15:56.760 --> 0:15:58.680 Supreme Court has said blah blah. I said no, no no, 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:02.320 no, no no, I'm asking you is it wrong? And by 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:05.480 the way, she wouldn't defend her article. She just said, wow, 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:06.840 I don't know what I was thinking. I said, I 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:08.680 didn't ask you what you were thinking. Do you agree 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:11.960 with what you said? She wouldn't answered. It's much the 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:17.400 same thing the far left supports as a matter of principle, 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:21.200 discriminating based on race and it's it's weird, it's and 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:23.840 it's really Look, it's the same thing that's in critical 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:28.320 race theory. Again. They believe race is the defining characteristic 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:30.760 and if they can discriminate based on race and it 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:34.400 suits their politics, they're all for it. So this is 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:36.960 playing out as I think a lot of us expected 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:39.360 it would, which is the left has come out. Joe 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:43.040 Biden has come out in favor of explicit racial discrimination, 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:46.840 and conservatives have objected to that and said racial discrimination 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:49.000 is a bad thing. And then the Democrats have come 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:52.120 back and said, well, you're racists. If you oppose racial discrimination, 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:54.760 you're racists and you hate black ladies or whatever. Okay, 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:57.080 we all knew that was going to happen. That is 0:16:57.480 --> 0:17:01.080 the playbook. They can't fire you for you're elected by 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:04.520 the people of Texas, so unfortunately for them, you're in 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:08.520 your job for the time being. They can fire other 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:11.639 people who have said exactly the same thing. And you 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:15.399 saw it happen at Georgetown Law School. Elias Shapiro, he 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:18.399 is a libertarian lawyer. I believe you're friends with him. 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:21.800 I think you know Elias Ilia has been around a 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:24.240 long time. He's a very well known lawyer. He came 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:26.960 out and made almost the same sort of comment. He said, 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:29.000 this is bad. We shouldn't be choosing people based on 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:31.520 race and sex. We should just choose the best available candidate. 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:36.400 He has been placed on administrative leave. There are struggle 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:39.080 sessions going on in the law school at Georgetown right now. 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:42.919 There is a crying session hosted by the dean of 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:46.000 the law school. It looks like they're going to fire 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:50.520 Ilia at this point. What has happened to American law schools. 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:55.240 Let me just start by saying there should never be 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:59.359 a crying session at any university or any law school. 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:02.119 It reminds me of a league of their own. There's 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:04.560 no crying in baseball, and if you want to be 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:08.359 a lawyer, don't be crying. Like, if you disagree with 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:12.480 what Elias said, argue against it. Yeah. I know Elio well. 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:15.200 He's a very smart lawyer. He's a libertarian, he's been 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:18.639 with Cato forever. He's a scholar, he's well respected. I 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:20.520 don't know how Georgetown screwed up and hired him in 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:22.560 the first place, because he's not a radical leftist, and 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:25.600 I thought they insisted you must be a radical leftist 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:29.280 to get hired, but they did. And actually it's it's 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:33.720 more ridiculous even than you described. So Ilia was arguing 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:37.240 that that Biden should nominate the most qualified left of 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:40.760 center judge, and he advocated someone in particularly advocated Sree 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:43.440 Strin of Assen. So Sreesan of Assen is the chief 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:45.240 judge of the DC Circuit. I know Sree. Srie and 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:48.520 I clerked together on the Fourth Circuit. He's very smart, 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:52.479 very talented Supreme Court litigator, was a Supreme Court clerk. 0:18:53.760 --> 0:19:02.720 Sree is an Indian American Liberal Democrat judge. And Elio argued, well, 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:07.359 he'd be a great choice for Biden to nominate. And 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:11.439 then Elia had a stupid phrase because he said he 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:13.800 shouldn't go with a lesser nominee, and he used the 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:17.040 word lesser. It was a badly phrase tweet, right, And 0:19:17.240 --> 0:19:20.640 what happened is the left said, well, you're saying all 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:23.000 African American women are lesser, and it's like, well, no, 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:26.159 he didn't say that. He said he thought that Tree 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:31.000 was the most qualified nominee. Therefore every other nominee would 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:34.720 be a lesser nominee. But I'm sorry, that's that's logic 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:39.080 and reason and and and the woke mob. They're ready 0:19:39.119 --> 0:19:41.440 to burn you to the ground that they don't want 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:48.400 to engage it is. It's it's amazing that that they 0:19:48.520 --> 0:19:51.760 want to cancel you. And and look, I think Elia 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:53.800 may well be fired for it. They put him on 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:57.560 unpaid administrative leave. You know, what does it say that 0:19:57.600 --> 0:20:01.840 our law schools don't believe in in anything resembling free speech, 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:05.520 That you can get fired for your job by arguing 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:07.920 for a liberal Democrat to be nominated to the Supreme Court, 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:13.880 which is what Ilia did. That the very idea of 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:17.679 considering people based on their qualifications is now anathema to 0:20:17.680 --> 0:20:22.640 the left. It is a vicious I mean, cancel culture 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:26.359 is alive. And well, if they could cancel me, they would. 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:31.359 The only reason they can't is that I'm elected by 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:36.040 twenty nine million Texans. It and so that they and 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:39.520 you think of the interorum effect. It has not only 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:44.040 is Ilia potentially losing his job, but every other professor 0:20:44.080 --> 0:20:48.800 that's terrified to open their mouth, every other person in 0:20:48.840 --> 0:20:51.720 their job that the mob will come and say fire them. 0:20:53.080 --> 0:20:57.000 It really is ridiculous. Well, I give the student radicals, 0:20:57.200 --> 0:20:59.600 I give them a little bit of credit, actually a 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:01.840 credit at least for their honesty. I don't give them 0:21:01.840 --> 0:21:04.040 credit for sobbing in front of their dean and demanding 0:21:04.040 --> 0:21:07.120 people's heads on pikes. No, you can't say heads on pike. 0:21:07.160 --> 0:21:10.600 Remember Steve Bannon a podcast said we want heads on pikes, 0:21:10.760 --> 0:21:14.480 and they accused him of calling for murder for remember, 0:21:14.560 --> 0:21:17.360 the nutty people are really nutty, So you can't use 0:21:17.400 --> 0:21:21.960 that phrase anymore. You're right, only metaphorical pikes and figurative heads. 0:21:23.320 --> 0:21:27.760 But what the student asked was, listen this guy, Elias Shapiro. 0:21:27.840 --> 0:21:30.520 He's a lecturer at Georgetown Law and he's the director 0:21:30.560 --> 0:21:34.840 of the Center for the Constitution. Seems like an unobjectionable 0:21:34.880 --> 0:21:39.000 sort of place, but he advocates an originalist position on 0:21:39.080 --> 0:21:43.240 interpreting the Constitution. And what the student asked was why 0:21:43.320 --> 0:21:45.720 do we need this, Why do we need this center, 0:21:45.760 --> 0:21:48.040 Why do we need this perspective? Why do we need 0:21:48.080 --> 0:21:50.840 originalism to be taught at Georgetown Law? And I thought 0:21:50.840 --> 0:21:53.760 it was actually a pretty good question, in that the 0:21:53.840 --> 0:21:58.199 law school overwhelmingly is leftist. The law school does not 0:21:58.280 --> 0:22:01.960 teach students generally speak, that originalism is a good or 0:22:02.080 --> 0:22:08.000 valid interpretive principle. They're trying to churn out leftist, leftist lawyers, 0:22:08.280 --> 0:22:12.000 and so why do they need it? Why does Georgetown, 0:22:12.119 --> 0:22:14.560 a left wing law school, need to have these pesky 0:22:14.600 --> 0:22:18.200 conservatives making all the students cry well, I mean, that's 0:22:18.240 --> 0:22:19.880 the view of a lot of the left. And I'll 0:22:19.880 --> 0:22:22.240 give you at least one reason. Let's assume you don't 0:22:22.280 --> 0:22:24.920 care about an intellectual diversity. Let's assume you don't care 0:22:24.960 --> 0:22:28.240