Hello and welcome to episode 118 of Rookishay's Law Talk podcast. We are coming to you, as always, from the faculty lounge of the Rikershye University School of Law and Marsupial Veterinary Clinic.

I'm your host, Troy Seneca, former White House speechwriter and

former REO Speedwagon Rode. And I am joined, as always, by the Abbott and Costello of the

conservative legal movement. They are Richard Epstein, the Lawrence A. Tish Professor of Law at

NYU, senior lecturer at the University of Chicago, and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and John

Yu, the Emmanuel S. Heller, Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley,

visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General

in the Bush administration.

And fellas, not to draw back the curtain too much here, but I am speaking to our audience, as usual, from the Cynic Studios in Connecticut.

But the two of you and our producer are all on the Stanford campus right now, discharging your various duties to the Hoover Institution.

But you are not recording from the same location.

Is there some kind of Betty Davis

Joan Crawford thing going on here

where the two of you cannot be

in the same room? If the Federalist

Society had a tabler, they'd be all over this.

Well, I'm going to give the answer to

this. This is strictly an acoustical decision.

Our professional monitor said if we're in the same room, we'll echo, the scene, sounds won't be correct.

So there was a force separation.

But just to show you what the pure benevolence is between the two of us, we were in the same room sitting at the same table with Peter Robinson doing uncommon knowledge earlier this morning.

So we are now not only a duo with you, but we are a traveling road show.

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