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Welcome to the Advisory Opinions Podcast. This is an auspicious day. This is actually

brisket eve which now all the the listener Sarah I may not know what we mean by brisket

eve or when we use the term brisket on this podcast. But tell the audience why we are not at this

moment podcasting live from the capital hill autonomous zone in liberated Seattle but are in

the capital hill. So you suggested it. Yeah and I really did consider it. I mean that both of us could just drive out there and we could broadcast live from there but I had some concerns because I have been cooking a brisket a roughly nine pound brisket.

And the brisket is ready to come out of the smoker tomorrow. Wonderful. Wonderful. And as we said in the last podcast are you you still have the intention of being with us on Monday. Is that is that prospect not yet daunting to you.

David this was a headline in my inbox this morning. Liberal groups back plan to expand the Supreme Court and there's a whole open letter that we have to talk about on Monday not to mention the cases that are coming out not to mention the orders that were still waiting on nine on qualified immunity couple on second amendment it's too much David can't we have to do it. Okay not to mention your husband's going to need some good alone bonding time.

That's right with the baby. Yeah. Okay. He's half this genetic material. So let's see him carry some weight here as long as we are totally on the record here the I'm going to speak for the human resources suits at the dispatch as long as we are completely on the record that we have a no way shape or form pressured Sarah is here into appearing on a podcast three days after the birth of her first child.

Definitely have not and in all seriousness it actually is good for me not to hover around my husband and to you know give him the baby walk away and go do something else for some women that relaxing thing is you know I don't know manicure pedicure like all these things that I can't really do because of the pandemic and so this is going to be my thing.

Well our listeners will benefit so maybe maybe and they'll especially benefit if you're still on painkillers which could make it an interesting a very interesting podcast but what speaking podcast let's march on with this one.

So we are going to talk today hit several topics going to talk polling in the aftermath of George Floyd's death in the Black Lives Matter protests around the country what is happening politically we're going to talk about the legalities surrounding some of the calls to remove remove Confederate monuments we're also going to talk about

Confederate generals and American military installations a bit then we're going to go and talk about the Michael Flynn amicus filing the former judge that judge Sullivan appointed to be to serve as amicus curiai curiae what is the official pronunciation of that Sarah.

I would say well actually I never say the second word and I say amicus not amicus okay so brief for court court appointed amicus is is in and it is as kids your age Sarah say lit.

Yeah so we're going to go into that we're also going to talk a little bit if we have time about the New York Times controversy and why we both don't care about it as much as you might think.

And then we're going to wind up with some thoughts about gone with the wind which y'all may have seen has been pulled from HBO max so that's all just to be clear frankly my dear I don't give a damn about the New York Times but I do have some thoughts about gone with the wind.

Excellent excellent so we got a lot to cover so let's start with polling and Sarah you are our resident numbers expert so share with us some numbers please.

And we discussed some of this for those who listen to the dispatch podcast with Steve and Jonah but some new numbers or comparative numbers have come out yesterday and today so just wanted to also talk to you about some of these numbers so yesterday.

And we saw that even where 43% of people think that the protests are peaceful and 43% of people think they're violent even for those who think the protests are mostly violent a majority support the protest which is fascinating to me and has just like been sitting in you know my mind grapes.

And I saw that by the way of the people who think the 43% who think that the protests are mostly peaceful 91% support the protest that makes sense.

Yes because to me this the if you think the protests are mostly violent and still support them that has real political implications for whether this matters in November and how long the sentiment lasts is it just a blip because like right now we're all like oh that seems nice.

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