Episode 32: Free Speech But It'll Cost Ya

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All Lawyers Are Bad

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4.8 • 869 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Andy, Charles and Tim discuss the sanctioning of UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese after her report on corporate complicity in Israel's devastating attack on Gaza, the meaning of free speech beyond the Constitution and how the Trump administration is forgetting the point of international diplomacy and the world that the UN grew out of. Andy - @wyattprivilege.bsky.social Charles - @ugarles.bsky.social Tim - @garliccorgi.bsky.social Thanks to @gloomfather for the music (orlandogloom.bandcamp.com) and @Snxwyfish for the sound editing (snxwyfish.bandcamp.com).

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0:00.0	All right. Tell your fucking story.
0:02.0	All right.
0:02.9	So I signed in.
0:05.0	I was, I was doing moot court during the pandemic.
0:09.6	And so just as a joke, I signed in as honorable Charles Starr.
0:15.1	Jesus.
0:15.9	Like is my name.
0:17.3	Just because it's a goof because we're all judges, right?
0:20.1	But what I didn't think about was that before we met the kids,
0:25.7	we would all be like in a group Zoom with all the other moot court judges.
0:31.5	And I was getting deference that I was not entitled to.
0:36.9	I was like, I need to be clear.
0:40.8	This is I do not respect me.
0:43.8	Oh, I thought this story was going to go with like, then you logged on to.
0:47.2	Yeah, that's what I thought too.
0:48.2	No, no, no, no, no, no.
0:49.6	I just, but there were other judges on the call.
0:52.6	And I'm like, Your Honor, do not call me, Your Honor.
0:55.4	They're not entitled to any special respect at fucking Moot Court.
0:58.8	You're just Bob here.
1:01.0	Yeah, that's right.
1:02.0	No, but the kids, like, they tell the students that they have to refer to, like, the three of us as...
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