Hello, fellow law nerds.

Welcome to our first episode of Boom Lawyered in the year of Our Lord 2020, a rewire

podcast hosted by the legal journalism team that is already over it.

It's just mid-January and I'm already over it.

I'm Imani Gandhi.

And I'm Jess Peklo.

Rewire.com news is dedicated to bringing you the best reproductive rights and social

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And the team legal podcast is part of that mission.

So a big thanks to our subscribers

and a welcome to our new listeners. It's a new year, Jess, and I have to say, even though

it's only been two weeks or so, 2020 is definitely trying it. It's not like I expected 2020 to be a

super fun year since it's an election year, and I'm probably going to

have an ulcer by spring.

But I had hoped to at least ease into the terribleness, not to pop off with the

terribleness immediately with a war with Iran or with Trump pretending that he wasn't really impeached

because he doesn't feel like he was impeached.

Yeah, 2019 is definitely holding 2020's beer so far. Right. And it's just like,

I can't take it. That's the only appropriate response for 2020. If 2019 was all about the

fart noise, 2020 is all about the guttural scream.

Exactly.

The primal guttural screaming.

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