Welcome back. It's episode 137 of the Hoover Institution's Law Talk podcast coming to you, as we always do, from the faculty lounge of the Epstein and U.S. School of Law, America's only institution of higher education where celebrities pay bribes to get their kids out of it.

I'm your host, Troy Seneca, former White House speechwriter and high-end cat groomer, and I am joined, as always, by the Green Hornet and Cato of the conservative legal movement.

They are Richard Epstein, the Peter and Kirsten

Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Lawrence A. Tish Professor of Law at NYU

and Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago. And John Yu, visiting fellow at the Hoover

Institution, the Emmanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley,

and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Bush S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and former

deputy assistant attorney general in the Bush administration. Now, fellas, August is my

favorite month of the year, mainly because it's digestive tract paralysis awareness month,

but also, that's a true fact, that's a true fact, But also, because it is a time-honored tradition of this show

that I have to do even less in August than I do the rest of the year, because this is when we turn it

over to our audience for the listener Q&A. So thanks to everyone who emailed us and who also left

questions in the comments at

Rickettscha. And gentlemen, we've got a lot of them. So with your indulgence, I'm not going to

waste any time. Let's just jump right into this. Okay. So we can't tell you about our lives.

That's okay. I mean, do we need to? They know about it. Richard, is there anything of such

burning importance that you feel the need to jump in front of this train with something that's happening in your life?

Well, I never want to jump in front of a train, but all is well in the land of Epstein.

That's what you had on deck, huh?

How about...

I want a real thing.

Well, there's an equal time provision here. John, you are on the cusp of evacuation, so you actually do have news. Yes, I've been told by the city fathers and mothers of Berkeley that we have to have our own gendered terms for the city of Brooklyn. And those in between.

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