Hello and welcome to episode 122 of Rikishay's Law Talk podcast.

We are coming to you, as always, from the faculty lounge of the Brickishay University

School of Law, where the air conditioning is always on high just to irritate the New York

Times.

I should note, by the way, that the faculty lounge will be relocating soon.

This show, starting next month, I believe, will be a production of the Hoover Institution, to whom we are incredibly grateful, which means it will also now be commercial free.

So we're very excited about that, although I don't think it's official until John passes the drug test.

I'm the host, Troy Seneca, former White House speechwriter, and now author of the Magic Mike graphic novel, and I am joined, as always, by the Mozart and Beethoven of the conservative legal movement.

They are Richard Anthony Lawrence, a professor of law at NYU, senior lecturer at the University of Chicago, and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and John Yoo, the Emmanuel S. Heller, professor of law, the University of California, Berkeley, visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and former deputy assistant attorney general in the Bush administration.

And we should start out, fellas, by apologizing for an unusually long absence between shows.

Richard was out gallivanting across Europe.

John was out galivanting across Latin America.

I was out galivanting across Maine.

But the weirdest travel arrangement of all might be the one that

Richard is engaged in right now. You are coming to us from an inn somewhere in Vermont where

you are for the purposes of a music festival? I'm not performing at the festival. But I'm

a music festival in Vermont, Richard, which I can only imagine has a lot of

And a lot of thoughts about the patriarchy.

No, the reason why I really like this is you started to talk about Mozart and Beethoven, right?

Okay.

And what happens is I'm visiting, I'm going to give a plug for it, at the Marlborough Music Festival, which is essentially a chamber music specialty, which does a huge amount of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and so forth.

And I happened to hear a concert last night with a wonderful Mozart piece.

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