Tell us.

So Bittersweet has been a band for a couple of years, which they're so young, it's crazy, but they've been doing a lot of good work.

They're gonna be on stage at the Blue Note, one of the bands, and I would like to introduce the members really quickly.

We have on cello, Miss Mari.

And on the drums, we have Miss Camila.

And on the keyboards, we have Annalise.

Yeah, and on the vocals, we have Miss Maylia.

Tell me about it.

So, Erin, why did you join Leslie on this ride? I mean, what was it about it for you that made this so interesting to not only play, because I know you play, but then to go into the world of teaching?

Yeah.

No, Les and I have always been gamers.

So we love, you know, I grew up playing crib and playing all those great card games.

Les and I, we were doing euchre tournaments with our friends and with our husbands.

And we've just left euchre in our dust now.

We just love mahjong.

Well, Erin, Erin, you've got a good history there, right? I do.

Can you talk a little bit about how this identification of a victim is difficult in the insider trading context?

Yeah.

So historically, the SEC has usually thought about the harmed party in insider trading cases as being the counterparty to the insider.

Right.

So an insider has some good information, buys a stock without disclosing that information.

And whoever sold the shares to that counterparty or to that insider, you know, they didn't have the benefit of that information.

So maybe they were harmed.

Maybe that's where this ends up for insider trading is the SEC just pursues penalties and doesn't pursue disgorgement.

Obviously, that disappointment aside, how has your experience been with the Americans embracing the World Cup?

It is absolutely electric over here.

It doesn't matter where you turn.

The World Cup is on in every single pub.

When we were in Seattle for the game against the US, the Mexicans were playing.

And every single pub, there were Mexican supporters just lined up outside the windows trying to catch a glimpse of the game.

They weren't even paying for a drink or anything, but no one seemed to mind.

what sort of trajectory are they on now do you sense?

And not just that mayor, it happens everywhere.

That's right.

Yeah, it does happen everywhere.

And so that's right.

We just asked the Supreme Court this very question, right? Can you, like, please, please, Supreme Court, hold government officials accountable for violating freedom of speech.

And so we brought a petition, the certiorari, to say, hey, we represent this man, Richard Hershey, who was peacefully distributing literature in a public park on a public sidewalk outside of a public arena.

And He was silenced and told, right, threatened with arrest, told to never come back.

He was just standing there and quietly being who he is.

pursue.Are some people more prone to believe these types of myths than others? For instance, did you find differences by gender or grade point average or other factors?

Yeah.

So our students reported their grade point average, which of course that could be incorrect, but let's just assume over, over all of these students, if there is an error in the reporting of their grade point average, they're all just slightly inflating their grade point average.

But we, we would expect that it probably is trending in that direction.

Even still, those who reported the highest grade point averages, um, were the most likely to correctly identify a misconception and reject it.

And that makes sense.

These are the students that are more engaged in the information, not just the, the headline, this is a misconception, but why is it a misconception? How do psychologists and researchers arrive at these conclusions? The students that are better able to follow the train of reasoning from question to conclusion, uh, are more likely to have a certain strength of belief that leads them to this place of rejecting a misconception.

Do you have any advice for those of us who are long past college and psychology courses, but would like to make sure that the information that we're putting out into the world is correct? I mean, how can we keep from perpetuating these myths when we don't have the benefit of you as our professor?

When did they switch it? Was this a Biden era, Obama era, Trump era? When did that happen?

Yeah, so the licensing of the military marks began while President Obama was in office.

I believe it was 2011.

And Shields had had a great relationship with the Department of War for, I mean, decades.

And it all went awry, really, when An anti-religion activist complained about what Shields of Strength was doing.

And then the Department of War came in and said, hey, we know that we've had a great relationship, but you actually can't be using our marks with religion according to this policy.

And Shields had had some issues before that with this policy that started in, I believe, 2014 maybe was when the policy came out.

So this was, I guess, individual military members ordering these? So why would the DOD even stop this? Or am I even interpreting that right?