The speaker discusses the difference in motives for attending law school, and how their own joy comes from making people feel better about themselves. They also comment on how they enjoy coming off as unintelligent, despite their actual intelligence.
Wade expresses how he was naturally good at academics without having to work that hard and how he enjoys being someone with charisma more than being perceived as intelligent.
The Philosophy department at UC had a wall of notable people who had studied philosophy, which included Mick Millen, Stephen Colbert, and a few others. Mick Millen related himself to a character in the show House who drank booze from his vents to lower his intelligence, allowing himself to live a more normal life.