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Transcript of OA333: Bonus Impeachment Coverage!

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Thomas:         Hello and welcome to Opening Arguments, don’t adjust that dial!  Bonus episode comin’ at you.  A lot of talk, we spent probably five or six hours debating the merits of keeping the episode numbering going or naming this bonus episode, it’s just the things that podcasters go through, but I think we’re keeping the numbering going which makes this episode 333, wow!  What does it all mean, Andrew?

Andrew:         [Laughs]

Thomas:         Numerology.  333, impeachment, there’s gotta be some tie in, someone come up with an elaborate theory.

Andrew:         Three plus three plus three equals impeachment.

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Transcript of OA332: Your Two New Best Friends, Bill Taylor and George Kent

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Thomas:         Hello and welcome to Opening Arguments, this is episode 332.  I’m Thomas Smith, that over there is Andrew Tor-rez.  How’re you doing Andrew?

Andrew:         [Laughs]  I’m doing fantastic Thomas, any reason you decided to shift the emph-asis to the second syll-able on my last name?

Thomas:         Oh, I think this is not really you, this is the clone that you sent.  You’re still in Italy.

Andrew:         [Laughs]  

Thomas:         And you sent either a clone or just somebody who can do your voice, I dunno, and maybe that’s why.  Yeah, are you back?  You’re finally-

Andrew:         I’m back, baby!

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Transcript of OA331: Who Sues “Oh No Ross and Carrie” with Carrie Poppy & Matthew Strugar

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Thomas:         Hello and welcome to Opening Arguments, this is episode 331, I’m Thomas Smith that over there is Andrew Torrez.  How ya doin’ Andrew?

Andrew:         I am doing fantastic.  I am really, really excited about this episode.  I feel like we saved the best for last coming out of our live show.

Thomas:         Absolutely, me too!  This is another one of those if you take the red pill versus the blue pill but not in an MRA way just in a fun healthy way.  [Laughs]  If you take the patron pill you’re gonna be getting a little bonus from Andrew Torrez because you deserve it and because you already heard all the live show.  But if you take the normie pill, which, hey, that’s fine.  We love all our listeners, but you guys are getting – I think you’re right, Andrew, probably my favorite part from the Opening Arguments live show in L.A. and that was with Carrie Poppy and Matthew Strugar. 

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Transcript of OA330: The Impeachment Inquiry Explainer (& Pre-Embryos in Connecticut

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Thomas:         Hello and welcome to Opening Arguments, this is episode 330.

Andrew:         Woo!

Thomas:         Cool round and even number, multiple of ten.  How’s it going Andrew?

Andrew:         It is going fantastic Thomas, how are you?

Thomas:         Doin’ well, not as well as the man who is on the vacation that seemingly never ends, but-

Andrew:         [Laughs]  It ends!  Last day, last day man.

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Transcript of OA329: Gun Buying and Jury Duty in America

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Thomas:         Hello and welcome to Opening Arguments, this is episode 329, I’m Thomas Smith that over there is P. Andrew Taurus, how’re you doing?  Mooooo!

Andrew:         Are you purposefully saying Taurus like the cow?

Thomas:         I thought – I’m sorry I thought I had the cow on for this episode, but if it’s just you then we’ll make it work.

Andrew:         [Laughs]  

Thomas:         P. Andrew human, how ya doin’?

Andrew:         Well I am probably not doing as well as the cow, right?

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Transcript of OA328: The Impeachment Inquiry Resolution! (H.R. 660)

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Thomas:         Hello and welcome to Opening Arguments, this is episode 328, still cruising!

Andrew:         [Laughs]  

Thomas:         I’m Thomas, that’s Andrew, always on a ship, on a boat, how’s it going Andrew?

Andrew:         It is going fantastically well, obviously the time I picked to take a vacation I am pleased that world events decided to take a vacation with us-

Thomas:         Yeah.

Andrew:         -and absolutely nothing is happening.

Thomas:         It’s not like the President’s being impeached or anything like that.

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Transcript of OA327: Pizza, Beer, and Guns!

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Thomas:         Hello and welcome to Opening Arguments, this is episode 327, I’m Thomas Smith, that over there is P. Andrew Taurus.  I didn’t even say that right.  Torah?  Torass? 

Andrew:         [Laughs]  

Thomas:         Anyway, P. Andrew Torrez, esquire.  Moo!  How are you doing?

Andrew:         Moooo to you too, Thomas! [Laughs]  

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Transcript of OA326: When the SCIF Hit the Fan

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New Show Intro

Thomas:         Hello and welcome to Opening Arguments, this is episode 326.  I’m your host Thomas Smith, that over there is Andrew Torrez, your legal expert and Andrew how are you doing?  And I just remembered we all just heard a brand new intro that was so funny, I don’t even.  I was laughing the whole time and I don’t even remember what the new quotes were!

Andrew:         [Laughs]  

Thomas:         In this timeline I haven’t done it yet, but they were great, weren’t they? [Laughs]  

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Transcript of OA325: Putin’s Puppet? The Open Skies Treaty

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Thomas:         Hello and welcome to Opening Arguments, this is episode 325. 

Andrew:         Woo!

Thomas:         Nice round number, I always like multiples of five, that’s good.  Feels meaningless but-

Andrew:         Yeah, aren’t we due for a new show intro?

Thomas:         [Gasps]  That’ll be next episode, then. 

Andrew:         Yeah!

Thomas:         So teaser alert!  I know I’m pretty sure you’ve already put up the patron thread, right Andrew?

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Transcript of OA324: Trump’s 9 Crimes and Misdemeanors

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Thomas:         Hello and welcome to Opening Arguments, this is episode 324.  I’m Thomas, that’s Andrew.  How’re you doing, sir?

Andrew:         I am doing fantastic, Thomas!  Still on that high after our fabulous live show in Los Angeles.  How are you, man?

Thomas:         Ah, same!

Andrew:         [Laughs]  

Thomas:         The same.  That was so much fun!  Can’t wait for the next one wherever we do it. [Laughs]  

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