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Opening Arguments

Opening Arguments is a law show that helps you make sense of the news! Comedian Thomas Smith brings on legal analysts to help you understand not only current events, but also deeper legal concepts and areas!
The typical schedule will be M-W-F with Monday being a deep-dive, Wednesday being Thomas Takes the Bar Exam and patron shoutouts, and Friday being a rapid response to legal issues in the news!

Politics Law News
Update frequency
every 2 days
Average duration
65 minutes
Episodes
1132
Years Active
2016 - 2025
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OA650: If Fake Insulin Tweet Tanked Stock, Could Eli Lilly Sue?

OA650: If Fake Insulin Tweet Tanked Stock, Could Eli Lilly Sue?

A viral meme claims that a fake Eli Lilly tweet declaring insulin to be free tanked the stock to the tune of billions and billions. Ignoring for a moment the fact that it seems incredibly unlikely t…

01:04:14  |   Tue 22 Nov 2022
OA649: Respect for Marriage Act Advances in the Senate!

OA649: Respect for Marriage Act Advances in the Senate!

...despite Mitch McConnell voting against codifying his own marriage into law... This is good news! Is it perfect news? As usual, no! But is it still very good? Yes! Would this have happened without…

00:59:58  |   Fri 18 Nov 2022
OA648: More from the Right Wing War on Free Speech

OA648: More from the Right Wing War on Free Speech

Today we get a breakdown on a few cases in which right wing goons are seeking to shut down free speech and freedom of the press in a pretty major way. AND they are finding success in our broken cour…

01:02:33  |   Tue 15 Nov 2022
OA647: Senate AND House Both Very Much In Play for Democrats!

OA647: Senate AND House Both Very Much In Play for Democrats!

It's a good news show! Of course you know by now that Democrats over-performed in the midterms. So it's time for Andrew to take a bit of a victory lap and discuss what happened, what races are still…

01:05:58  |   Fri 11 Nov 2022
OA646: A Comprehensive Guide to Watching the Midterms

OA646: A Comprehensive Guide to Watching the Midterms

Andrew has done exhaustive research on all the key midterm elections to deliver to you a definitive guide on what to look for on election night. How soon will we know if things are good? Or if they …

01:20:38  |   Tue 08 Nov 2022
OA645: We Badly Underestimated Just How Terrible Elon Musk Is At Business

OA645: We Badly Underestimated Just How Terrible Elon Musk Is At Business

Hooooo boy. Ok, Elon Musk officially owns Twitter. Does that mean a big "Andrew was wrong?" Well.... kinda but it's complicated. We really just did not fathom how irrational Elon is. His wealth has …

01:11:00  |   Fri 04 Nov 2022
OA644: Andrew Seidel Is Here! But NOT To Yell About a New SCOTUS Disaster!

OA644: Andrew Seidel Is Here! But NOT To Yell About a New SCOTUS Disaster!

Just wanted to clarify right off the bat in case the very sight of Seidel's name on our feed might send you into a panic that some fresh church/state separation obliterating hell was dealt to us by …

01:07:14  |   Tue 01 Nov 2022
Whoops! Here's OA643 T3BE

Whoops! Here's OA643 T3BE

Sorry things are a bit hectic with me being in Manchester for QED. Here is the t3be featuring Andrew Seidel!

00:07:47  |   Fri 28 Oct 2022
OA643: Magnus Carlsen Accused Hans Niemann of Cheating at Chess. The Chess World Exploded. Now Hans Has Sued

OA643: Magnus Carlsen Accused Hans Niemann of Cheating at Chess. The Chess World Exploded. Now Hans Has Sued

This wild story has been on my radar for a while, but now that there's a lawsuit involved, I've convinced Andrew to give us a breakdown! But Andrew doesn't just take us through the lawsuit. We go th…

01:20:01  |   Fri 28 Oct 2022
OA642: Discount Mueller Probe Ends In Complete Failure for Republicans

OA642: Discount Mueller Probe Ends In Complete Failure for Republicans

But who will investigate the investigators? John Durham, as it turns out. And what will he find? F*ck all. Trump tried to have his own Mueller Probe to get to the bottom of all the deep state corrup…

01:14:48  |   Tue 25 Oct 2022
OA641: Massive Smocking Gun in Newly Revealed Eastman Docs!

OA641: Massive Smocking Gun in Newly Revealed Eastman Docs!

Big news! The smockingest of smocking guns was revealed by a judge who was so alarmed he had to share it with us! Get the full breakdown as to why this is final nail in the case against Trump. In th…

01:09:46  |   Fri 21 Oct 2022
OA640: Remunerations Are Speechful, My Friend

OA640: Remunerations Are Speechful, My Friend

Today we bring you another SCOTUS deep dive involving campaign finance. Money is speech, and people with a crapload of money just deserve to speak way more than us pleebs and that's a great thing th…

01:09:03  |   Tue 18 Oct 2022
OA639: Alex Jones Owes a Literal Billion Dollars

OA639: Alex Jones Owes a Literal Billion Dollars

YASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS Alex Jones owes Sandy Hook victims' families... so much money. So, so much. But should we be worried that it will get appealed or reduced or some legal sh…

01:01:55  |   Fri 14 Oct 2022
OA638: Citizens United, Part 2

OA638: Citizens United, Part 2

Make sure you listened to part 1, episode 636 before you proceed! It's part 2 of the long-awaited Citizens United deep-dive. In this one, we finally get to... Citizens United...

Links: McConnell v. …

00:56:13  |   Tue 11 Oct 2022
OA637: Trump's Appeal Is On Clarence Thomas's Desk, But That's Ok

OA637: Trump's Appeal Is On Clarence Thomas's Desk, But That's Ok

I mean it isn't really ok that Clarence Thomas is on the Supreme Court, and he definitely should recuse himself from any of this (he won't), HOWEVER, there is no need to freak out about this particu…

00:59:59  |   Fri 07 Oct 2022
OA636: Finally, a Deep-Dive on Citizens United!

OA636: Finally, a Deep-Dive on Citizens United!

Look it seems impossible, but someone Andrew insists that we've never done a deep-dive on Citizens United! It's obviously one of the worst decisions in Supreme Court history, but do you know the det…

01:06:17  |   Tue 04 Oct 2022
OA635: Trump Gets His Special Master, Immediately Regrets It

OA635: Trump Gets His Special Master, Immediately Regrets It

You can't quite call it f around and find out, since Judge Cannon has bent over backwards and around and through the 4th dimension and back in time for Trump. But Trump got his hand picked Special M…

01:18:07  |   Fri 30 Sep 2022
OA634: Wizards of the Coast vs. Transphobic Racists

OA634: Wizards of the Coast vs. Transphobic Racists

Some transphobic and racist a$$holes stole a DnD-like game from Wizards of the Coast and tried to use it for their own racist transphobic purposes with a really stupid "one weird trick." They got bu…

00:59:21  |   Tue 27 Sep 2022
OA633: Why Adnan Was Released

OA633: Why Adnan Was Released

No doubt you've heard the huge news – Adnan Syed has been released. So what happened? Is there really new evidence? New suspects? Does this mean he didn't actually kill Hae? Find out! Then, big news…

01:27:14  |   Fri 23 Sep 2022
OA632: Alex Jones's Lawyers Still Don't Know WTF They're Doing

OA632: Alex Jones's Lawyers Still Don't Know WTF They're Doing

Despicable a**hole Alex Jones is getting properly destroyed in court once again. You might be thinking, what is it Groundhog Day? But no, this is not the Texas trial in which he got suitably destroy…

01:06:34  |   Tue 20 Sep 2022
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