commenting on a matter of public importance, even if you make a mistake or two, that's not grounds to fire you because you criticized your boss.

However upset you are at the firings and the violations of the First Amendment, it's hard to even put into words how much worse it is than people even talk about or know or care about, apparently.

Hello and welcome to opening arguments. This is episode 1218. I'm your host Thomas Smith.

And that over there is attorney and voting rights advocate slash did the government kill your job yet?

Not yet.

I am.

Overlooked by this fascist government and still somehow working.

Janessa, how you? Their eyes are based on movement.

So we're just laying low. Their visions based on woke movements. As long as you don't move too wokely, they can't see you. Quite literally. That dinosaur thing's a myth, right? That turned out to be a myth. I'm pretty sure it did. I was going to accidentally start giving you a giant neuroscience thing about frogs. Let's not.

Neuroscience think about frogs. Yeah, their vision and how they're superior colliculus and movement.

They got a better colliculus than us? Yeah. How are you doing? I am alive, which may have been up for debate the last couple of weeks. I am here. I am well again.

I was running out of things to make up for why you were going. People weren't believing me,

you know. She had to visit her cousin in Canada. She was actually sick, folks. You were really sick. Oh, my God. COVID, right? Well, I hope the test was negative. Yeah. So probably flu-like thing that turned into a sinus infection and a giant asthma attack.

And oh, my God, get your vaccines.

Wear your masks when you're around the churmy children.

I just, oof, I'm better now.

Well, I'm so glad you're better.

And I'm really excited to be doing the Monday show with you. I think this is going to be great because we're getting back to classic OA deep dive stuff. And we've been doing that here, and they're not to say we haven't. I've loved the Warren Court Good Law series you've done with Matt, and it's sort of in that vein that we wanted to talk about a classic case,

a landmark case, Pickering v. Board of Education. I feel like whenever the Board of Education's

involved, it's some shit's going down. Pretty much. Whenever that's in the name of the Supreme

Court case, there's some shit's happening. Yeah. So this one actually, I wasn't intentionally

hunting for Warren in court,

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