OA278: The Founding Myth (w/guest Andrew Seidel)
Opening Arguments
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🗓️ 14 May 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode features a long-form interview with one of our favorite recurring guests, Andrew Seidel of the Freedom From Religion Foundation. He's on to discuss his just-released book, The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism is Un-American.
Because Andrew, Andrew, and Thomas could easily talk for a full hour (and then some)... why, that's exactly what they do. We hold Andrew Seidel's feet to the fire on the threat that Christian Nationalism poses to the U.S. judicial system, including an in-depth discussion of the future of the Establishment Clause. And if you haven't heard of "Project Blitz," you will after this interview. You don't want to miss it!
After all that, it's time for the answer to Thomas (& Andrew) Take the Bar Exam Question #125 on the admissibility of prior bad acts evidence. Can the prosecutor introduce evidence of the "Ol' Switcheroo" on cross-examination? Listen and find out!
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| 0:00.0 | So I hold myself in contempt if you try to pull me up here to court without attorney. |
| 0:20.0 | I'll ask the questions here. |
| 0:21.3 | Car Jacka Willey. |
| 0:22.3 | Objection! |
| 0:23.3 | I'm going to allow it at characterizes that offended as a car attacker. |
| 0:30.0 | You didn't kill Thompson, but you did Mr. Wells? |
| 0:33.0 | Yes! Yes, I killed that Thompson! I killed it! I killed it! I killed it! I killed it! |
| 0:39.0 | You're out of order! You're out of order! The whole trial is out of order! Get out of order! |
| 0:53.0 | Welcome to Opening Arguments, a podcast that pairs an inquisitive interviewer with a real-life lawyer. |
| 1:00.0 | This podcast is sponsored by the Law Offices of P.A. |
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| 1:13.0 | Hello and welcome to Opening Arguments. This is episode 278. I'm your host Thomas Smith. |
| 1:22.0 | That over there is Andrew Torres, Optimist Prime. How you doing, Andrew Torres? |
| 1:27.0 | Well, we are going to test my optimism today. I am really, really looking forward to having our most frequent guest on the show, |
| 1:39.0 | back on the show, Andrew Sidel. We're going to pepper him about Christian nationalism and is the country headed down a horrible pit of despair from which there is no exit? |
| 1:52.0 | Sounds fun. Can't wait to get over to it. Quick bit of pre-segment stuff here. We might have to be bumping a really good listener question for time. |
| 2:07.0 | Do you want to tease that? Yeah, yeah. So, Read Henninger asked on Twitter, RGH184. He says, in response to our good news coming out of Kansas, episode 276, |
| 2:21.0 | he wanted to throw some cold water on that. He said, well, look, if the Supreme Court overturns Rowan Casey, |
| 2:27.0 | he said, I'm not going to be talking about the state level constitutional rights that you're talking about. The answer to that is no. |
| 2:39.0 | I am very, very confident that the answer to that is no. But I am going to have to talk about a couple of cases to answer the question. |
| 2:46.0 | That we're going to give that time to Andrew Sidel. It's going to be super interesting. So, answer to your question is no. I will tell you why super soon, but not today. |
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