Kira Davis

It did.

I was actually really impressed, James, that you told your student the truth that you said, you know, I think you've got a chip on your shoulder and it's affecting how you play.

And so kudos for you to you, by the way, for even telling the truth in the first place.

But yeah, it does get to be a little frustrating when the very people you're trying to help turn on you.

But that's why I think we don't, that's why we shouldn't absolutely not judge any part of society, particularly not our arts, by DEI standards, by quota standards.

Because at the end of the day, I don't think it even makes grateful people.

I don't think it's not just that it it sort of perverts guys like you who now you've been a victim of the system and it creates anger and resentment and all kind of not to mention the different failures you've had to cope with.

But it also puts these people in a position of being ungrateful.

I think it shrinks their gratefulness.

I don't think it expands it.

Oh, I was just thinking that.

Amen.

That is so good.

I love the idea of taking it back.

I was talking to a friend who went to visit some churches in the UK and she stopped by a pastor, very conservative pastor who is, uh, uh,

runs a very traditional church.

They have an old building.

It's hundreds of years old, part of the Church of England.

But the Church of England is crazy.

And so I asked her, why doesn't he leave?