Hello and welcome to opening arguments. This is a technically vapid response Wednesday, but a little

different today. No video this week because Matt is traveling. I'm Thomas that over there as

real life immigration attorney. Are you technically on vacation or just like somewhere else? It's a working vacation. I was Thomas Stout over there as real-life immigration attorney. Are you technically on

vacation or just like somewhere else? It's a working vacation. I was inspired after last week's

four hours of Jeffrey Epstein to come down and visit the Virgin Islands. So I am just miles away from

little St. James. I'll be going by it on the boat. Yeah, I know. Kind of a strange coincidence.

Didn't really mean to do that. Wow. Wow. Yeah.

St. Thomas, I've got to say, a beautiful place. I strong recommend. It's just a great place to show up.

But I'm here to talk about the other major news story of the year, which is Minneapolis, which I was just in at the end of January.

So just kind of a weird coincidence. I had to get away after going from Boston to

Minneapolis to find somewhere warmer because that was just too much going. It was the coldest place I've ever been. Yeah, I teased that the other week that you were going to Minneapolis. Then the scheduling didn't work out because we had to talk about the Epstein drop after that. So I'm glad we're finally talking about this before we go to the first break. What was your purpose? How did you end up there?

So I had an invitation. I could not pass up from my good friend and friend of the show, Megan Coleman,

who's a state senator for Rhode Island from Butucket. And she was going for an event through state's futures,

which I'll tell you a little bit more after the break. Just an outstanding event of lawmakers.

Probably the first time, as far as anybody knows, since 1814, that anything like this has ever happened. So I got to be in the room. I was the only journalist or anybody resembling a journalist in the room for this meeting, and I want to tell you about it. It was really something. And I got a lot of hope out of this entire thing. So I want to pass that along. Oh, wow. I'm really excited. That's super cool. And like you said, we'll have to get to it after the break.

So we'll take our first break here. Patreon.com slash law if you want to get all the goodies. A lot of the movies is coming out. It's going to be out today, hopefully. It'll be today or tomorrow. I just have to do the final pass-through. it's going to be super fun.

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which is, the final pass-through. It's going to be super fun. So patreon.com slash law. If you'd like to get us making fun of Kim Kardashian's new law show, which was so bad. Dear God, it was bad. But it was bad in the best, most fun way. It was psychotic. I don't even know. Yeah, it's the kind of thing I never would to watch otherwise but just hanging out and talking to you

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