Robert, what do you think is energizing people to head out to the polls?

What you're seeing is that a lot of black voters in Louisiana feel like they're under attack.

First, we had the Calais decision that we had Cleo Fields, black majority district, the sixth congressional district dismantled and eliminated by the state legislature.

Then down in Orleans Parish, we had a clerk of court decision.

seat Calvin Duncan eliminated and dismantled.

And then, of course, we also had judgeships in Orleans Parish eliminated and dismantled.

So I think a lot of black voters basically see this as an attack because most of those seats that got eliminated, in fact, in Orleans Parish, all basically all but one judgeship, the folks that lost their seats were black public officials.

Are we seeing that here? Or are there different, larger issues shaping how Louisiana voters are casting their ballots?

Jamie's at 34 right now,

right? Yeah, he's at 34, and we know he's going to get over 90% of the black vote.

He'll probably get close to 95% is what we're estimating.

Generally speaking, when we have a black candidate in the race, generally they get close to 95%, 94%, 95%.

So he's going to hit those two metrics.

So the key for him... is figuring out how he can hit that 30% of the white vote.

And it doesn't matter whether it's Democrat, Republican, independent, no party, whatever.

the recall? Do you think the recall sort of like raised some political tension in climate?

So these different intellectual arguments, how did they help you grapple with this question of why is there something instead of nothing?

Well, I mean, I guess the, uh, from the question, I began to intuit that there might be religious answers to this.

And, you know, you just come across these nuggets of wisdom.

Um, "Mere Christianity" was a big, long nugget of wisdom, basically, which, um, you know, provided for me what, what Lewis would call that more than a schoolboy's faith.

And his point was that so many people who had rejected faith had rejected as a teenager, say, or something like that, this sort of immature faith that they'd held as a, as a kindergartner.

So it's no surprise.

You just need to, to grow up, and that had certainly been the case in my sense.

What was the exchange like, and, uh, how, how did that shape how you thought about your faith and your interactions with this, uh, with this particular patient?

Describe your LR Masters class for listeners who may not be familiar.

Yeah, the class is a bit different than some of the others that I teach.

I really like this one.

It's because it's an advanced class, right? I'm assuming, my assumption, is that people attending are trying to go for top scores.

But I think we all realize that along the journey, 170 plus requires elite level accuracy it doesn't matter uh if you want a 170 plus you're either doing you know kind of the the range is you know 100 of the questions at 90 accuracy or 90 of the questions at 100 accuracy somewhere in there but regardless you have to be pretty damn accurate And I think many students, including myself along my journey, we think there's something inherently different about these higher level questions, right? We only cover the hard questions, these difficult questions.

The level fours, right? Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Did you feel like there was something different about studying at the high end of your range, once you hit the 165, 170 mark, as opposed to the 140s and 150s?

Um, and she said, um, "Let me go to my supervisor and ask."

And so what she did is that she said she can't give it to us, but she said, "I'm gonna look at it on screen.

You might be able to see some of it over my shoulder." And so she basically kind of showed it to us, but she didn't want to give us or have any proof that he, she had given it to us.

But she let us see that there were no common substances of abuse found.

The pathologist said that Angelo's cause of death was, quote, "excited delirium syndrome due to acute drug intoxication with behavioral disturbances due to arrest-related death with physical exertion." In the eight months since their lawyer had first told them about excited delirium, Robert says they'd all been learning more.

As time went on, it became difficult to think that they would still blame excited delirium because even if you believed in the pseudoscience of excited delirium, even if you were to read their own reports, Angelo didn't fit.

That's why there was such a shock in the crowd because we had all become much more informed about excited delirium.

Typically, excited delirium was blamed on people that were taking coke or meth or something.