Were you? OK, so what's going on? That's

why it kept taking me so long to say these things, to say my feelings out loud to someone else, be that vulnerable.

it's the first time I ever did it ever in my life, ever in my life.

I've said, I said, I love you to parents and relatives and stuff like that, but that's more just observation, right? That's what people do.

But it was the first time I did it in a place where I could be rejected ever in my life.

So I was scared shitless.

And that's why it, It was only when you were about to hang up or I was about, like, I ran out of runway.

None whatsoever?

So explain a little more why you cut to that judgment on the Supreme Court.

Yeah.

I mean, I think the bottom line up front is just that the Supreme Court is engaging in these cases as though they're business as usual.

And the most favorable, most charitable interpretation of the Supreme Court is by William Baud.

He recently has this exchange with Kate Shaw and Steve Vladeck in the New York Times.

And they're like looking back at the Supreme Court term.

And he says, oh, you know, like look at the tariffs case, look at the birthright citizenship case, a couple others.

Defense Department, so I'd be, I mean, I've just, you know, you have a real inside perspective from the executive branch as well as obviously from, as a student of the court, so yeah.