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Transcript of OA 319 – Your Guide to Impeachment

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[Show Intro]

Thomas:         Hello and welcome to Opening Impeachments, it [Laughs] ah!  Opening Arguments episode 319, day five of being chained to my desk, recording Opening Arguments.

Andrew:         [Laughs]

Thomas:         How’re you doing, Andrew?

Andrew:         I am doing fantastic Thomas, how are you?

Thomas:         Uh, tired?  It’s a lot of recording, you know.

Andrew:         [Laughs]

Thomas:         But it’s worthwhile.  Hello patrons hearing us early, everybody else hearing us late, you missed us in the early part but now you’re hearing us so that’s fine either way.

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Transcript of OA 318 – Quid Pro Quo Burger

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[Show Intro]

Thomas:         Hello and welcome to Opening Arguments, this is episode 318.  I’m Thomas, that’s Andrew.  How’re you doin’ Andrew?

Andrew:         [Chuckles] I am doing fantastic, Thomas!  I think I said earlier on Twitter, I’ve had some good days in my life, you know?  The birth of my child, my honeymoon, the trip we took to Australia … today is way up there with those days!  [Laughs]  How are you doing?

Thomas:         Because we are finally going to be doing the eminent domain deep dive!

Andrew:         That’s right!

Thomas:         Yes!

Andrew:         Oh, and I’ve got a long segment on baseball law!  No.  [Laughs]  

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Transcript of Opening Arguments 317 – North Carolina Rep. Christy Clark

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[Show Intro]

Thomas:         Hello and welcome to Opening Arguments, this is episode 317.  I’m Thomas Smith, that over there is Andrew Torrez.  I was gonna say “how ya goin’, how is it doing?” some combination of those.

Andrew:         I am doing fantastic, I am going well, I am super excited, really excited for today’s episode.

Thomas:         Me too!

Andrew:         Yeah, how are you?

Thomas:         I’m great!  I am equally as excited for today’s episode, a really fascinating interview with North Carolina State Representative Christy Clark and it’s a fascinating perspective, you’re gonna love it. 

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Transcript of Opening Arguments Bonus! Whistleblower Breakdown

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Covering Whistleblower-Gate

[Show Intro]

Thomas:         Hello and welcome to – don’t adjust that dial!  Don’t adjust that dial anybody!

Andrew:         [Laughs]

Thomas:         The podcast-

Andrew:         The podcast dial, yeah!

Thomas:         Yes, don’t adjust it because it’s Thomas, it’s Andrew, it’s Opening Arguments!  It’s episode – I don’t know – 316 and a half, maybe?

Andrew:         316 and a half, baby!  We’ve got to cover “Whistleblower-gate” [Laughs]

Thomas:         Oooh.  Yeah, Yodel Mountain, Whistleblower Edition.  It’s a duet, actually, between a yodeler and a whistler … Whistleblower.

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Transcript of Opening Arguments Episode 316 – Unsealing Mueller’s Grand Jury Testimony & Other Yodel Mountain Madness

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Transcript of Opening Arguments Episode 314 – The Supreme Court and Trump’s Asylum Rules

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Transcript of Opening Arguments Episode 313 – Devin Nunes Is A Crazy Cow Farmer

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Transcript of Opening Arguments Episode 311 – Opioids are a Nuisance!

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[Show Introduction]

Thomas:           Hello and welcome to Opening Arguments this is episode 311, ooh, 3-1-1, is that something?  Or am I thinking of 4-11? [Laughs]  

Andrew:          Yeah, all the things that end in 11 I think are actual.  3-1-1 is that non-emergency police?  I don’t know.

Thomas:           Oh, maybe that’s it, yeah.  Well that’s good for this, this is a non-emergency but still very important!

Andrew:          Yeah! [Laughs]  

Thomas:           I’ve taken my opioid.

Andrew:          This is a 3-11 episode, there we go!

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Transcript of Episode 310 – Citizenship and the Military and…

OPENING ARGUMENTS EPISODE # 310

Citizenship and the Military and…

[Show Introduction]

Thomas:           Hello and welcome to Opening Arguments this is episode 310, I’m your host Thomas Smith, that over there is Andrew Torrez.  How you doin’ Andrew?

Andrew:          I am fantastic Thomas, how are you?

Thomas:           I am doing great!  We got so much to talk about, oof!

Andrew:          [Laughs]

Thomas:           Big news week!  There is so much to cover we are surely not going to be able to accomplish it, but some announcements first, probably mostly related to what we can’t do, [Chuckles] or don’t have time to do.  So I have a note here that we’re doing opioids on Tuesday?  So I guess the news cycle’s gotten that we’re just out with it?

Andrew:          [Laughs] Yeah!  That’s right!

Thomas:           Alright!

Andrew:          You and I are gonna sit in a room and take as much Oxy and – no.  We’re going to discuss the landmark opioid trial-

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