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🗓️ 25 November 2021
⏱️ 66 minutes
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This week, Alan, Quinta and Scott were joined by special guest, Quinta's co-host of the Arbiters of Truth series on the Lawfare podcast feed Evelyn Douek! They sat down to discuss:
—“Getting Rittenhoused”: A jury recently acquitted 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse of murder charges for shooting two men in what he claimed was self-defense during last summer’s unrest. What does his trial and its aftermath tell us about the intersection of politics with our criminal justice system?
— “Now That’s a Power Serve”: A global pressure campaign by professional tennis players has forced Chinese officials to disclose the location of Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai, who disappeared after publicly accusing a former senior official of sexual assault. Is this a new model for dealing with Chinese human rights abuses?
— “Duck Say Quack and Fish Go Blub—But What Did Fox Say?”: Two prominent conservative commentators have resigned from Fox News over its release of a Tucker Carlson film that they say spreads misinformation and promotes violence. Will this be enough to force the network to curb its behavior?
For object lessons, Quinta endorsed her favorite pie dough recipe. Alan in turn made an unorthodox recommendation of what to put in that dough: sweet potato pie. Scott encouraged listeners to follow up that big meal with a cup of coffee, made on his beloved Aeropress with a Prismo filter attachment. And if that doesn't work, Evelyn suggested folks tuck in for a nap with her favorite weighted blanket from Bearaby.
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0:00.0 | podcast is sadly not a visual medium, but Evelyn's backdrop is fantastic. There's a there's a Lego piano. There was a small Yoda that just appeared. It's very nice. |
0:12.0 | Yeah, you know, it's what you do to entertain yourself when you're in lockdown by yourself for 18 months, you accumulate a lot of Lego friends and possessions apparently. |
0:22.0 | You're giving off a lot of good whimsy energy, which is a really good fit for the vibe of the show. |
0:28.0 | It's one of our favorite energies. |
0:30.0 | I've been doing a lot of job interviews lately, so I don't know if whimsy is exactly the vibe I've been meaning to go for, but professional but fun. |
0:38.0 | Yeah, professional. |
0:40.0 | Is it a terrible stereotype to say that when I think of Australians, whimsy is in fact one of the first adjectives that comes to mind? |
0:48.0 | Not in an unprofessional way, but I do I do think of there is something I think fundamentally whimsical about Australia. |
0:54.0 | Fantastic. As long as it's not like cool guns and drunkards and crocodile dandy, whimsy, whimsy is much better. |
1:10.0 | Hello everyone. Welcome to rational security 2.0 aka rational beast and where to secure them. |
1:17.0 | I'm here with my co-host Alan Rosenstein. Say hello Alan. Hello and Quintet Jurassic. Hi, I like that title. |
1:25.0 | I was pretty proud of that title. People don't think of it as a sequel, but it's basically a sequel. Let's stop fooling ourselves. |
1:30.0 | Arguably a prequel I guess. And we're very excited to have our special guest, Evelyn Duac, co-host of Arbiter's of Truth with Quinta, among many many other capacities, which I will say for putting a link in the show notes. |
1:45.0 | Thank you so much for joining us here today, Evelyn. |
1:47.0 | Good day, great to be you. |
1:48.0 | How does it feel to like not be have the reins of the law fair podcast? Usually you have your, you know, iron grip on the subject matter and a flow. |
1:57.0 | And this is it. You're totally letting it go. Are you terrified? Are you scared what's going to happen? |
2:02.0 | Yeah, no, I please be gentle on me Scott as an absolute control freak. I this is I feel very vulnerable and just be nice. |
2:10.0 | No promises, no promise opposed to where it goes from here. Well, we have an exciting set of topics here to talk about this week for the nothing to be thankful for addition. |
2:20.0 | Because as folks will soon hear it is a bit of a bummer of a week and we have a set of a bummer of topics to talk about going into this most thankful of a holidays. |
2:30.0 | Topic number one, getting written house. A jury has recently decided to quit 17 year old Kyle written house of all charges, including murder charges for shooting two men and what he claimed was self defense during last summer's unrest in Kenosha Wisconsin. |
2:44.0 | And this response has triggered a public backlash. What does his trial and its aftermath tell us about the intersection of politics and our criminal justice system. |
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