The Hello and welcome to citation needed the podcast where we choose a subject read a single article about it on Wikipedia and pretend we're experts because this is the internet and that's how it works now.

I'm Noah, I'm going to be presiding over this court today and to do it properly I'm going to need my officers of the court

first up the prosecutor and the defense attorney at least whenever I've played board games with them heath and

Eli I'll allow it yeah I keep us from going to jail by sleeping sometimes.

Sometimes, yeah.

And also joining us tonight, two men who are so obviously the bailiff in the court reporter

that I feel like I'm not even doing my job here, Tom and Cecil.

Okay, I just want the handcuffs and that baton. Don't ask a lot of questions.

I just want that. I like basketball.

Court reporter.

But before we begin tonight, I'd like to thank our patrons.

The patrons got to hear a racist cat to a suicide bombing this week.

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And with that out of the way, tell us Heath, what person plays,

thing concept phenomenon, or event?

What we'll be talking about today?

We're going to be talking about animals on trial.

on trial.

Sure, okay, so what are those?

Do we did that?

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