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My name's Slumpass Laszow's here. And today we have another guest in studio that we've been very excited about for weeks now. Right. The legendary local defense attorney, Mr. David Bell. How are you? You know, first of all, I'm really great. Let me just say how excited I am because walking in here, meeting your producer and you guys, the amount of criminal law business in this room alone, you know, when you've got a small child is going to help me pay for us. I just want to thank you guys for letting me be. Well, you're right. It's a gold mine in here between us and our listeners. There's money to be made, my friend. Just in this room alone with you guys and your producer, I've got plenty to do, so I really appreciate that. I know I mentioned it before we went on the air, but when we mentioned a couple weeks ago that Lazzo had contacted you, you were going to come in and do the podcast, I got a text from a guy I hadn't heard from forever. And he said, wait a second. Did I hear you're getting David Bell on? He was, he is a beast of an attorney.

He said, that a second. Did I hear you're getting David Bell on? He was,

he is a beast of an attorney. He said, that dude absolutely saved my ass. I was caught red-handed. I was dying laughing. I was like, yeah, he's coming on. He's like, what a small world. He's the best. So we're excited that you're here. That was my dad, actually. yeah so you know we over the, we have questions constantly like, oh, man, I wish we

could ask an attorney.

I wish there was an attorney here.

But just to get started, I guess, because you are a local defense attorney, what is, as a

person who's been an attorney for a while, what is the most Kansas city thing

about being a defense attorney here? Is there something that kind of separates being a defense

attorney in a city like this as opposed to a small town or whatever? You know, you look around

and you went to college at NYU, so you've kind of got a feel for both of them, right?

Yeah, yeah. I was in Philadelphia for undergrad and law school for NYU. I think what I found here, which makes it really interesting, is we have to deal with a multiple jurisdiction. So I'll do federal Kansas, which is its own separate system. I'll do federal Missouri. I'll do Jackson County, which is Missouri. And then I'll do Wyndott County, Johnson County, which are Kansas, and everyone's its own little fiefdom. And then there's municipalities within that. So all these little cities and things like that. So you have to be familiar with a million different jurisdictions. And the judges. And the judges and the prosecutors and the probation officers and the systems. And everyone's just a little bit different. So you've got to keep up to date on all that. But once you pass the bar in Missouri and you pass the bar in Kansas, you do that

separately, I assume. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then you can practice all across the state. You're good to go. The bar to be a criminal defense attorney is very low. I'll just say that right now. So I mean, you just set up a shingle and say, hey, I'm a criminal defense attorney.

Okay, okay. So as a look at...

I want to ask you real quick, how hard is the bar?

Because you hear like it's so incredibly hard, but then I'm also like, is that defense attorney. Okay, okay. So as a looker... I want to ask you real quick, how hard is the bar?

Because you hear like it's so incredibly hard, but then I'm also like, is that just something that people say like mechanics? Like when you go and you're like, how do I fix my car and like, look, you wouldn't understand. And they do it. But once you learn how to do it, you're like, I could have done that. Is the bar really that hard? So real quick. So the bar I was talking about

being a criminal defense attorney, that was just like, like the high jump bar hard? So real quick. So the bar I was talking about being criminal

defense attorney, that was just like the high jump bar is very low. The bar you're talking about really honestly sucks. Really? Maybe one of the worst experiences of my life. I had to go down, I think it was to Jeff City for two days. You sit in a room, your whole life, or at least the the past seven years, college and law school, is to pass this thing. And if you don't pass,

you can't work. It's literally your ticket. And so you go through and you take all these multiple choice questions that all seem to have like two answers that are going to work. And then you've got to write out a bunch of essays. And sometimes you don't know what. That's the thing that sounds scary. Yeah, sometimes you can't study for all of it.

So sometimes you don't know, you're like, you read this thing.

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