it's going to ed kneedler. you know, i was he's the deputy solicitor general in the office. he's been there for what? how many? 45 years now? 40 years. and he is it you might have different views, but to me, there's this ed neither he transmits the culture from one generation of assistance to another. and the fact that within that office you have the way the office is structures you've got the solicitor general you've got for five career deputies and then you've got about 60 assistance to the solicitor general. that's the structure of the office. the career deputies tend to be there for a long time. folks like us, we flowed in for a few years. the administrations change, but these are people who dedicate their entire careers to serving in that office. and that's one way that i think the culture of the office is transmitted, but it's also just being part of a larger legal and maybe being into, to a certain extent, a leader within that legal culture. i think every one of us feels the obligation to transmit those types of values. there also. you know, the the younger lawyers in

but there's an ed kneedler in almost every government agency, and they also are these repositories of kind of, you know, kind of the institutional knowledge of these various agencies. and that's the office. that's really what you want to tap into because you want to win your case, but you really want make sure that you are kind of vindicated in the long term interests know there's, you know, things change from a democratic administration to a republican administration, but there's like this kind of core of institutional interest that stays the same. and that's that's what you really want to protect in the office. and that does, i think, kind of permeate the whole enterprise. i want to make sure we save time for questions, but i also want to make sure we get to the war stories part. so would you like to share, i guess, one of your favorite moments either in the court or as asg, one of one of your favorite moments or embarrassing moment or whatever you want to share with us. stars, they're just like us. yeah. so i plenty of embarrassing was my favorite moment also involved justice scali