OA149: Russian Indictments & Utah Silence (feat. Bryce Blankenagel)

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🗓️ 20 February 2018

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Today's emergency episode breaks down the indictments issued in the Mueller probe on Friday, focusing on the shadowy, Putin-funded Internet Research Agency. What does this mean in terms of Yodel Mountain? Listen and find out! After that, we have a lengthy interview with friend of the show Bryce Blankenagel of the Naked Mormonism podcast. Bryce comes on the show to break down the Rob Porter scandal, an innocuous-sounding bill before the Utah state legislature, and the puppet-mastery of the Mormon Church of all things political in that state. After that, we end with the answer to Thomas Takes the Bar Exam Question #63, another very difficult question, this one about hearsay. Don't forget to follow our Twitter feed (@Openargs) and like our Facebook Page so that you too can play along with #TTTBE! Recent Appearances Check out the NEW PODCAST created by our very own Thomas Smith and friend-of-the-show Aaron Rabi, "Philosophers in Space." You'll be glad you did! Also, Andrew was just a guest on Episode 6 of the Wayward Willis Podcast -- give it a listen. Show Notes & Links

The case referenced in the A segment is United States v. Yousef, 327 F.3d 56 (2003).
This is the text of Utah HB 330, and this is the article Bryce referenced during the show.

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0:00.0	I declare bankruptcy!
0:20.0	I congratulate you on your imagination, but this is a court of space law not a theater.
0:26.0	The fact is that Mendis, Insendium, Gloria, Calpam etc., Memo, Bis, Punitor, Delec, Cattam is all there, black and white, clear as crystal.
0:43.0	How is this a fair trial? Our lawyer is a morty!
0:46.0	It's not fair, you have no rights and he's not a lawyer. We just keep him here because he's fun. Look at him go!
0:51.0	Welcome to Opening Arguments, the podcast that pairs an inquisitive interviewer with the real-life lawyer.
1:00.0	This podcast is sponsored by the Law Offices of P. Andrew Torres, LLC for Entertainment purposes, is not intended as legal advice and does not form an attorney-client relationship.
1:09.0	Don't take legal advice from a podcast.
1:12.0	Hello and welcome to Opening Arguments, this is episode 149. I'm your host Thomas Smith. That over there is Andrew Torres, Esquire. How are you doing, Andrew?
1:26.0	I am great, I am really, really excited. We are closing in on new intro quotes.
1:32.0	Oh yes, see I thought you were going to say you're excited for it.
1:37.0	It is Yodel Mountain. I think we all could hear the distant yodeling in the background.
1:46.0	As soon as the Mueller indictments dropped, we all just very, very much. I don't know if I'm having auditory hallucinations or if it's if word of the country as a whole is just embracing yodeling.
1:59.0	Yeah, no, we are recording on a special Saturday session because we love our listeners that much.
2:08.0	Yes, baby Phoebe strategically got sick. Baby opening arguments Smith strategically got sick so that we would have to record late and then Mueller would have dropped his.
2:19.0	He always does it on a Friday. Is it just me? No, he does. Every time, right? Robert Mueller hates opening arguments.
2:26.0	There's only that's the only way he has a competing legal podcast that we don't know about.
2:31.0	That's what you know, it's it's just like a government official to be thinking about how he can cash in in this time.
2:39.0	Instead of going to a think tank, Mueller is clearly setting up to go into big podcast.
2:43.0	When he gets out. So we've got that to talk about. We've also got Bryce Blanken-Agel to talk about well, very extensive and disturbing history of youth.
2:55.0	The Mormon church and as it relates to Rob Porter and the potential for abuse within that system that they have set up.
3:06.0	So really interesting interview. Bryce is a great guy. I can't wait to get over to that.
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