Welcome to the Advisory Opinions Podcast. This is David French with Sarah Isger and we've got a great pod for you today.

We've got an outstanding guest that Sarah is going to introduce.

And here's the basic outline of the podcast. We're going to start by talking about something you may not have heard of before.

But you need to know about, they're called bias response teams in higher education and the litigation effort against them.

So I'm not going to talk anymore about that right now because that's going to be the subject of our whole first segment.

Then we're going to go back in history a little bit and talk about where did speech codes come from and why did anyone think they were okay constitutionally.

And then we're going to end with Sarah and David's personal Oscars, which are in fact and should be the true Oscars, including my best picture awardee that I think you will all agree is exactly correct.

So definitely not be correct.

And before Sarah introduces our guest, I'd also please ask you guys to subscribe to the dispatch.com.

We are now just days away from the paywall descending like an iron curtain across our content.

Good good analogy, Sarah.

Yeah, that feels dark feels like maybe we don't want to compare ourselves to the Soviet blocks.

Yes, Germany, but sure.

Well, but a paywall is coming also ask you to subscribe to this podcast and rate it please.

We actually read the feed back you give you guys give us and have responded to some really good counsel.

But with all the preliminaries out of the way, Sarah, could you introduce our guest?

Absolutely.

So once again, we have a friend of the pod, Nikki, nearly, and I have known each other for a number of years in a variety of context.

Though now our most recent context, Nikki, is that I stole your tortilla press, kept it for months and was sending ransom notes and have sent you a pasta maker, which still benefits me because I plan to come over for the pasta.

But that is not why Nikki's here today.

So Nikki is the president of speech first, which we will get into all of the work that speech first is doing.

But I found this is kind of a fun detracts on you.

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