Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I ask you to smell the defendant.

Oh sure, like lawyers working big skyscrapers and have secretaries, and look at him, he's wearing a belt.

That's Hollywood for you.

Please answer the question, does the defendant's case hold water?

No, the defense is wrong.

Objection overrule.

Oh no no no, no I'm a strener's lip check.

Oh wow, a strener's lip check and I can take some time to reconsider.

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Hello and welcome to opening arguments, this is episode 23.

How you doing Andrew?

Yeah, I think that that about does it for me too.

You know, we have our usual intro in which I tell you I'm doing great Thomas, but I don't know that I can, I know that I can muster that.

I thought I'll put in a plug, you and I and Eli recorded an episode of atheistically speaking where we sort of decompressed from the election.

And that really did help in my view.

Like I thought it was pretty cathartic and we had some fun and I think anyone who's listening to this show,

who might want our sort of personal friends reaction, I think would enjoy listening to that episode of this.

Yeah, certainly I was really, really happy with that recording.

Just had all kinds of everything that I wanted, which was just like Andrew's insight, Eli's humor and just, you know, friendly conversation was really fun.

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