OA381: The Legal Eagle Interview!
Opening Arguments
Opening Arguments Media LLC
4.3 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode... was supposed to have two bookend segments and legal analysis, but we wound up having so much fun talking to Devin Stone, the Legal Eagle himself about nontraditional careers in the law, Tiger King and Better Call Saul, and so much more!
After that, it's time for the answer to the first Thomas and Devin Take The Bar Exam in which it was literally Hammer Time for two friends watching football. Did Thomas and Devin get it right or wrong? Listen and find out!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | He's not even a lawyer and he's kicking your ass. |
| 0:19.0 | No! Bad lawyer! I need a loophole! |
| 0:25.0 | He's not Judge Judy on executioner! He is! |
| 0:31.0 | I'm sorry, but my mother always said if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all. |
| 0:38.0 | Will that hold up in court? No, I've tried it before. |
| 0:45.0 | Stop. Ask a question a lawyer would ask, please. I am a lawyer. |
| 0:55.0 | 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. Andrew Torres, LLC for Entertainment Purposees, |
| 1:05.0 | 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. |
| 1:18.0 | Hello and welcome to Opening Arguments. This is episode 381. I'm Thomas Smith, that's Andrew Torres. |
| 1:23.0 | How are you doing, Andrew? I am fantastic, Thomas. How are you? |
| 1:26.0 | You don't have so much better. I was a little down last episode. It's a tough time. I hope people understand. |
| 1:33.0 | But I feel way better, I think getting to talk to you, getting to record with fun people, doing the show, it does put me in a way better mood. |
| 1:40.0 | So my answer is I am patent-pending fantastic as well. |
| 1:46.0 | And speaking of, I'm also very excited for our interview with Devon Stone, that's legal, eagle on YouTube. |
| 1:53.0 | It gave us an incredible shout out the other week. And it all, it was meant to be after that. |
| 1:59.0 | We're going to have him on and it'll be a ton of fun, really, really great YouTube channel and a fun guy. |
| 2:06.0 | Any announcements? I mean, we can just re-up the fact that we are doing the Q&A on YouTube, May 1st, that's Friday. |
| 2:14.0 | So that's this week, that's at 5 Pacific, 8 Eastern. And that is a lot of fun too. |
| 2:20.0 | And again, as Andrew said last time, everybody can come on YouTube and watch. |
| 2:24.0 | And we're in the chat too, to a certain extent, we do prioritize patron questions on the Patreon thread. |
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