LAM1009: My Cousin Vinny

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🗓️ 11 September 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Just because everything else is terrible out there right now, we treated ourselves to our second consecutive Law’d Awesome Movie. By popular patron demand: it’s My Cousin Vinny! We had a great time talking about this one. Actual New York Italian-American Jenessa Seymour joins to provide dead-ass balls accurate cultural context for one of the greatest Brooklyn couples ever put to film, and Matt shares his perspective as both an actual practicing courtroom lawyer and a guy who is weirdly obsessed with end credits songs that tell you about the movie you just watched.

Thanks again to patrons for this one!

My Cousin Vinny, Dale Launer (1992)(full script)(PDF)
“‘What is a Yute?’ An Oral History of ‘My Cousin Vinny,’” Andy Greene, Rolling Stone (3/7/22)

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0:00.0	The Hello and welcome to opening arguments.
0:26.9	Weird day, huh?
0:28.0	Today for me, probably yesterday for you, I'm guessing.
0:30.5	Weird day.
0:30.9	It's also been a weird week because I was at the puzzle and a thunderstorm
0:36.0	pajama party.
0:37.3	Lydia and I both were there for almost a week, so it was a whirlwind of travel,
0:41.7	and as such, we weren't able to do our VAPID response Wednesday.
0:46.4	But that'll be back next week.
0:48.1	In the meantime, got something nice and fun to maybe take a break from the chaos.
0:52.8	And that is Lot Off of Movies, My Cousin Vinny.
0:56.0	That's right. The patrons let us have nice things. We got to watch just a great movie. It was so much fun. So you're going to hear me, Matt, Janessa, and Lydia talking about what's got to be my favorite law movie now, having actually seen it. Because I hadn't seen it. I hadn't seen the full thing. And so this is, of course, available in its entirety on patreon.com slash law at that $2 tier and above. Going to give you a nice, healthy, long chunk for the normies here. So it'll still be fun and worthwhile. But if you want to hear that whole thing, got to go on Patreon. And it's worth it. It was so much fun. If you'd like not a break from the chaos that's going on, I have to imagine that tomorrow, after I sleep for eternity from all this travel, I'm likely going to record on the whole Charlie Kirk thing because, yeah, lots to say on that. If anyone's following my social media, you've seen some of my thoughts, but yeah, very crazy times right now.
1:46.0	But enough about that. Let's get to something fun. We'll take a quick break and then we'll get to
1:50.8	Lot Awful Movies 1009. My Cousin'Vinny, such a good movie. God, I loved it. I want to watch it again.
1:56.9	We'll be right back with that.
2:01.3	Hello and welcome to lot awful movies.
2:04.3	1009, got the numbering right this time, looked it up, took the time.
2:07.7	I'm Thomas.
2:08.7	Oh, we have so many people.
2:10.7	We have so many great people for you to meet today.
2:13.0	With me as always, Matt Cameron, real life attorney.
2:15.5	How you doing?
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