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Welcome to the advisory opinions wide podcast edition at the University of Michigan. I'm David French with Sarah Isker and Sarah

We've got a very special guest. We do. We have Judge Chad Raidler with us. It is spelled R-E-A-D-L-E-R and we've talked about him before and mostly what I want people to know especially those who might appear before him or interview with him for clerkships is that it's pronounced Raidler not Readler and for years after meeting him having the correct pronunciation explained to me I would still have people go no it's Readler and I would second guess myself.

And I would actually text him and go like just to check it's like actually Raidler like this isn't some long running prank. So yes, I am now firm in my conviction that you have been telling me the truth the whole time and it is Raidler.

But the first question has to be we have some housekeeping to get to but to you what percentage of advocates pronounce your name correctly.

It's a good question. First off welcome to Ann Arbor. Thank you and welcome to Michigan Law School. Yeah, it's law school in the country. Well, it's always great to come to places that have second tier college football teams.

They outnumber us David. I know I know but you know speaking truth to power is important. I live in Columbus, Ohio. So I'm used to hearing that kind of thing but not in Ann Arbor.

So he's got his Michigan like gear on y'all he your undergrad and law school here. So you spent seven years here.

It's a great great town. So to answer your question. Yeah, probably half and half I would say but I do appreciate the ones who say it correctly.

That might be like the lowest of any judge on the bench.

Maybe I'm not sure if I'm supposed to be appreciate that or that's a criticism but it might be true. Yeah, sort of fascinating because it's not a intimidating name. It's not sort of awesome.

And yet I'll bet you money that's sort of awesome gets pronounced correctly more often than Raidler.

That could be but I think as a tip it is very nice to use the judge's name. You can just to get their attention certainly and you know you might get another judge's attention. So it's certainly helpful.

Ann Arbor, this is just a great great college town. I think the best college town in the country. The law school is wonderful. So we are podcasting from the added part of the law school that's about 10 years old.

Chief Justice Roberts was here for the dedication for the building. It was probably for to come to see the building but Michigan happy to be playing Notre Dame that weekend.

And the chief is another day in fan. So it all worked out but the other other side of the street is the historic law quad which is 100 years old. It's just a beautiful beautiful campus.

And I hope you have some time to enjoy it while you're here.

So on our way we already went to Culver's David had never been to Culver's. We got the cheese curds. I tried to get custard but frankly like somehow I was not doing the order correctly.

And I ended up with a chocolate milkshake which was you know fine but not the custard that I really was looking forward to frankly.

The mushroom Swiss burger was outstanding. Cheese curds were no better than like Arby's mozzarella sticks and the fries were replacement level.

Which is still good because it's a fry. They're still French fries right right.

Yeah I guess I feel like when I think cheese curds I think squeaky and like these were fried so they really then were kind of indistinguishable from as you say mozzarella sticks. I think they should have just gone with the squeaky curds.

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