The Hello and welcome to opening arguments. This is episode, well, I don't know. It's a new thing. I'll tell you in a moment. I'm Thomas Smith. I'm here to tell you the Wednesday schedule is changing. When we did that video Q&A the other week or month or even your year, we all thought it was so much fun and we wanted to try to do more stuff like that. But of course, there's no more time for any more work at all. So I had the idea that the only way we could do something like that is if it is not editive. It's a live show. It's a live, live thing, then I can do it because editing is

really where the time suck is. That's where, oh, 90% of my life goes. And so we gave it a try,

and it was so much fun. It went way better than any of us even could have dreamed. Matt, of course,

had the amazing idea to name it VAPid Response Wednesday, and it's where we're going to be

taking on some of the

most vapid think pieces and other miscellaneous things. Of course, related to the law and to the topics

we talk about anyway, but we really have wanted to find more ways and time to take on like some of the

awful, you know, opinion columnists and other, you know, intelligentsia, whatever,

who just are so bad at their jobs and yet seem so influential and have a disproportionate impact

on what everybody seems to be thinking and saying. And we've had enough. We'd like to put a stop

to that, single-handedly. So we're doing it. It's up on YouTube, but of course, I'm going to put

out a nice high-quality audio version for podcast listeners.

And it's going to be a podcast. You can just continue listening like normal. Totally fine. Or if you'd like to see us, I'll pop that YouTube link in the show notes. You can watch it there. But, you know, hey, still give us the download of the podcast. That's really kind of important, actually, if you don't mind.

Oh, and what about T3BE?

Well, for one, Heather's new job, I guess the, maybe the school year

or the preliminary stuff is starting up because she is busy for the next couple weeks,

unable to record. So I figured this is a great time to give this a try anyway. And based on how

this one went, I think we're pretty set on

this being the new Wednesday. T3B will not go away. I still love it. I want to do it, but I'm not

sure where yet. It may be something that we do for patrons. Maybe somehow we do it on YouTube or

something. One way or the other, it will need to no longer be edited in order to fulfill the

not adding to workload requirement. But one way or the other, it'll continue. And I'm hoping maybe we can have guests. It would be fun to have guests on that. Like I find somebody, you know, another YouTuber or something and say, hey, come answer a bar question. You know, that kind of thing. That could be fun. Still working that out. Oh, and also, what about part two with Chesa Boudin? Well, that's Friday's episode. I know, sorry to break him up like that,

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