Episode 176: This Podcast Won’t Play Football This Fall

The National Security Law Podcast

Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck

Courses, Politics, News, Education, Government

4.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

We were out last week...what'd we miss? Oh. So, there was much we could have covered this week, but we decided to focus on these three: The First Circuit ruling vacating the Tsarnaev (Boston Marathon Bombing) death penalty based on concerns about jury bias The President's decision to sanction TikTok and WeChat Legal questions raised by the quartet of executive orders and other presidential directives over the weekend relating to COVID-19 economic relief, including an important federalism question relating to the scope of CDC/HHS pandemic-response authority. As for frivolity: we discuss whether and how college football will unfold this fall (or maybe this spring, or maybe not at all), but more importantly we also ask listeners to weigh next week on an important topic: Best movie soundtracks of the 1980s. Which is pretty funny because, well, that was the subject of frivolity in Episode 50, and neither of us remembered that while recording the current episode! In fairness, that was fall 2017, which was like 623 years ago...

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0:00.0	Hello from Austin and welcome to episode 176 of the National Security Law podcast.
0:16.2	We're brought to you by the Strauss Center at the University of Texas.
0:19.1	It's Monday morning, August 10th, 2020.
0:21.5	I'm Bobby Chesney.
0:22.7	I'm Steve Lodick.
0:23.8	Bobby, this is an experiment for us.
0:26.0	We have ditched the 20th century record via Zoom movement
0:31.9	and are actually trying to record today on, wait for it, Zencaster. Ohcaster oh nice we've got sound effects thank you
0:42.0	zencaster you know people are going to really regret that we made this move because once
0:49.9	we figure out how to start adding more custom effects i I think we're going to exploit this pretty relentlessly.
0:55.0	Oh, my gosh.
0:55.5	Are you kidding?
0:56.4	And for folks who don't know, I am currently the master of the...
1:01.0	I'm sitting in front of the host screen, so I'm the one who has control over the sound effects.
1:06.5	Yes, that's going to make some people thrilled and some people nervous.
1:09.3	I hope the sound quality is what it ought to be.
1:12.4	We'll see.
1:14.0	I guess the post-production will fix everything.
1:16.6	It can't be worse.
1:18.2	Well, as I understand it, so Zencastr's pretty cool.
1:20.3	There's an automatic, certain amount of post-production, which I think basically involves
1:24.6	running a compression algorithm that checks the levels.
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