No AI content, no addictive algorithms.

You still have the products, but they would be like how they were back when they started.

It's a defective product, it's designed to do this, it is doing this, it's creating addiction. It's creating all kinds of physical and mental health issues for young people especially. But really for all of us, they know it and they're allowing it to happen.

Hello and welcome to opening arguments. This is episode 1247. I'm Thomas Smith. That over there is real life attorney Matt Cameron. How are you doing? I'm missing the seagulls, Thomas. They're gone. They've disappeared. Yeah, so far today. They're fickle creatures. I'm sure they'll be back. Yeah, man, that's, I feel like I've lost a loved one. Really? No seagulls. It becomes so accustomed to their voices.

Yeah. Yes. That's big news to drop on me. I'll try to keep it together for the rest of the recording, but yeah, geez, okay. Hopefully they'll be bad. If they're out there, if you're out there, if they're listening to this, if I can hear the sound of my voice, please come back. I didn't mean it. I didn't mean any of the things I said the first time that I heard you.

No.

We got a lot of stuff going on. the sound of my voice. Please come back. I didn't mean it. I didn't mean any of the things I said

the first time that I heard you. No. We got a lot of stuff going on today. A lot of stuff that I'm really glad you're going to cover because I don't understand it. For example, we got social media trial. There's been a lot of them. Yes. Seems like good news, but I never know with those things. how that's going to turn out?

I think it is.

That's good.

Happy to talk about it.

And then also we've got ice in the airports. Yes. Seems like good news, but I never know with those things. How that's going to turn out?

I think it is.

That's good.

Happy to talk about it.

And then also we've got ice in the airports.

I do not know what's going on there.

I've seen very conflicting reports on that.

So Matt's here to straighten that out.

Got a lot of worried clients on this one, a lot of calls asking if it's safe to travel, so I'll talk about that. And then also, a new program that kind of slipped my attention that is allowing ICE to basically hire cops as bounty hunters. Oh, God. Yeah, not great. But on the other side of things, we're going to put the fetish back in footnote fetish. And we have got a really fun one footnote today about a romantician plagiarism case. Romanticie? Yeah, so Romanticid fantasy. We've got werewolves, half-warwolves, half witches, gargoyles, we got everything. Like Twilight type crap? Yeah, but worse, I think. But worse? You may get to do some dramatic readings. Oh, boy. I do some excerpts for you. Yeah. Worse than Twilight is that, that's, that's a big claim. It didn't read it, but it seems like it's badly written. And the standard is pretty low for this stuff, I think. I didn't know they had made a neologism or whatever. What the hell is the word for a new word? Yeah, neologism. What is it? Yeah, Nealogism, I think, whatever. Didn't realize they had done that. That's cool. Romantasy.

Romanticy.

Sure we got listeners to know a lot more about it than I do from what What is it? Yeah, something like that. Yeah, near-religism, I think, whatever, yeah. Didn't realize they had done that. That's cool.

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