You must never ever give out or give in. You must keep the faith and keep your eyes on the prize.

That is your calling. That is your mission. That is your moral obligation. That is your mandate.

Get out there and do it. Get in the way. Change happens because people care.

You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

I still believe with all my heart, America can't. free and beautiful to make this life a wonderful adventure.

I still believe with all my heart, America can be a place where no child is left hungry,

no community is left behind, and no one gets told they don't belong.

The fight for our country is always worth it.

Hello and welcome to opening arguments.

This is episode 1169.

I'm your host Thomas Smith and got a fun one for you, folks. You may remember from me announcing last week a few times that we did our first Matt and Thomas live Q&A.

And you know what?

Actually, no, we didn't because what we actually did was our first Matt, Thomas, Lydia,

Olivia, and Liz Skeen Q&A, which is way better, markedly better than the first thing I said.

There were some really cool questions.

Like Matt and Liz talked about

burnout and how they deal with being lawyers who do work that, frankly, I mean, is really hard

and is really draining. And how they deal with is really insightful stuff that I know so many of

the lawyers listening and activists, other people who are having a hard time with burnout. I think it's great

stuff, great advice, really interesting. And that's just, you know, one of the sections. There were

some really good questions. We got into some cool stuff here. And while we are super glad that we

had a nice crowd, not nearly enough people heard it. So I wanted to make it today's episode,

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