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Are you gonna run for president . I think i just got an f from you actually. This is over. crowd applauding [evan] Jeff Goldberg welcome. [jeff] thank you. Thank you very much for being here. Were sitting here at the end of march, brussels has just happened, what in the hell is going on with our world . Its impossible to feel good about things. Im, i just wanna lock myself in my house at the moment and never come out. Youre fairly safe in austin, so dont worry. Is that right, seriously . I believe so. I think youre, not to be too spokean about this and well talk about obamas reaction to terror...

And latino relations, people are living it on a day to day basis, but both of you kind of approach this from your academic perspectives in terms of literature. So professor gates well just call you skip. Mmhmm. Hinojosa . Why look at this current important relationship through the prism of literature . Well, ive added to the Norton Anthology of African American literature along with ten of my colleagues. Hinojosa this big book big, heavy book, yes. laughing its the big bible. This. The mother ship of black literature. In order to enshrine African American literature in the academy. Look, if yo...

Wow, how beautiful, danilo perez. Thank you for joining us. Its a pleasure to be here. Hinojosa some people might not know your name, but you are a grammy Award Winning musician, composer. You head up the Berklee College of music global jazz institute. Yes. Hinojosa you head up the panamanian jazz festival that you created. You live in boston. Yes. Hinojosa and you give so much back in terms of your music to the world. Its really an honor to have you here. Its my honor, too. Hinojosa when people think about jazz, sometimes they think its a solid american traditional music. You grew up in panam...

Applause Rick Linklater, welcome. Always great to be here. Thank you very much for being here. Congratulations. You know i love this movie. Ive seen it so many times. Im the most prepared ive ever been for an interview. Thats amazing. Its great. But, you know, i think, actually, so generationally, were not the same age, but were close enough. This spoke to me as i suspect it spoke to you, and came from you, because this is the story of our lives at that point. College. You know, i made a High School Movie a long time ago, so the idea of making a College Movie hit me probably in like 2002. It t...

I once danced. Not much anymore. That was an earlier chapter in my life. And odd that you would mention my ethnicity there. And i say that because i once thought about that. And i realized that i may be the most visible scientist of any discipline, of any ethnicity, of any skin color, in america today. And the reason why i went through that mental exercise was because there i am trying to bring the frontier of science to the public, and i said, i dont want to do that alone. I want some others there with me. And i looked around to see whos there with me. You know, do we have a geologist there w...