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Our story today starts a couple years back on February 26th, 2014, Washington, DC.

You know, we got up very early that morning.

This is February, I believe, so it was pretty cold.

And I tell you, we were sitting there in sort of the cavernous, you know,

empty metro station rehearsing.

Kai says he and his friend Ryan Clayton went through what they were about to do over and over and over.

It was very helpful to just sort of go through, go through it, go through it.

Train comes, they hop on the train, take it a couple stops,

get out, walk a couple blocks, cross through streets, and then walk up the marble steps to the Supreme Court.

And then we have to wait in line, get through security, and you're trying, you know, you're trying to just be cool.

Once they're inside, they pretend not to know each other.

And then, you know, you get brought into the chamber.

My first time ever being inside.

They take their seats in the spectator section, look around.

And it's such a grand, kind of intimidating space.

There are these red velvet curtains at the back. And if you look up.

Marble carvings on the walls and the ceiling.

And on the north and south walls, there are these huge portraits of great lawmakers through history, Moses, Hammurabi, John Marshall, Muhammad.

So I was just taking all of that in, feeling the butterflies.

And I had a sense that it was very much doable.

And then it's just waiting.

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