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Every episode, legal expert Andrew and comic relief Thomas will tackle a popular legal topic and give you all the tools you need to understand the issue and win every argument you have on Fa...

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Here's Why Voter Fraud Is Virtually Nonexistent, and What Experts Actually Fear

OA1310 - We all know by now that election fraud is rare, but do you know why? What mechanisms are in place that make us so sure it's rare, a...

55:55Nov 2, 2026

"You Gotta Spend Voter Fraud to Make Voter Fraud" - James O'Keefe

OA1309 - With Matt out sick, we're doing a GG crossover, with a hot off the presses new story suitable for Rapid Response Friday. Back in Au...

53:17Oct 30, 2026

The Christian Reboot of the Scopes Monkey Trial Nobody Asked For

WE WATCHED A MOVIE SO CHRISTIAN WE HAD TO DOSE IT OUT IN TWO SITTINGS. Thomas and Matt are joined by Lydia for Alleged , a 2010 Christian re...

44:25Oct 29, 2026

They Wouldn't Be Flailing This Hard If They Thought They Were Winning

OA1308 - The election is coming up fast, with early voting already underway in many states. With an administration that is, let's say "do we...

51:58Oct 26, 2026

The More We Learn About the Ilhan Omar Raid, the Worse It Looks

OA1307 - Matt's got an update on the Ilhan Omar search warrant saga. We get into the genuinely bizarre citizenship limbo they're trying to p...

46:57Oct 23, 2026

Tommy Teepell Gets Publicly Owned, and the Worst Cornell 7 Take Yet

VR48 - Today on Vapid Response Wednesday: the extremely believable backstory of some guy named Tommy who got publicly owned by Michigan Demo...

01:15:21Oct 21, 2026

Can You Sue a Drug Company When You Don't Know Which One Made the Pill?

OA1306 - We're on a winning streak! ...because we picked the winners. This week we cover two cases where the little guy comes out on top aga...

51:36Oct 19, 2026

NY Defense Attorney Calls the Tompkins County DA's Cornell Decision "Truly Stunning"

OA1305 - Matt's under the weather, so no normal Friday show this week. But don't panic, because we've got a treat instead: a crossover from...

57:15Oct 16, 2026

What the Media Are Getting Wrong About the Ilhan Omar Raid

VR47 - Federal agents raided Ilhan Omar's house this week, possibly over a decades-old conspiracy theory. Matt Explains what the media are g...

01:02:36Oct 14, 2026

This Guy Beat Qualified Immunity Twice, in Two Different Circuits

OA1304 - Qualified immunity does not strike again! In a case out of the 10th circuit, with the same plaintiff from last week's Rosales v. Le...

57:48Oct 12, 2026

Florida Judge Says Congress Can't Make Noncitizen Voting a Federal Crime

OA1303 - Rapid Response Friday kicks off with two major under-the-radar stories that you may not hear anywhere else about major federal deci...

47:02Oct 9, 2026

Samuel Alito's Victory Lap and Douglas Murray's Deportation Jetpack Fantasy

VR46 - This week on Vapid Response Wednesday: A Bari Weiss double feature! We kick off with an amuse douche from CBS News's chill hang with...

01:05:15Oct 7, 2026

The 5th Circuit Denied a Cop Qualified Immunity, So We Might Be in the Afterlife

OA1302 - Qualified immunity can be overcome! In the fifth circuit?! Come hear the good news, and learn some fourth amendment traffic stop ru...

49:40Oct 5, 2026

DOJ Wants Every Federal Judge in Minnesota Recused (Good Luck With That)

OA1301 - IT'S FASCISM RESPONSE FRIDAY, and it's a lot. DOJ just filed a complaint trying to get every single active federal judge in Minneso...

49:49Oct 2, 2026

John Yoo Wrote the Torture Memos and Never Paid for It. At All.

VR45 - Today on Vapid Response: 25 years after the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, we look back on the Forrest Gump of monstrously bad...

01:15:49Sep 30, 2026

From Toga Guy to John Hinckley: A History of Pleading Insanity

OA1300 - The “insanity defense” might sound like a relic of a time when mental illness was viewed through the lens of demons and witches, an...

52:33Sep 28, 2026

He Went to Prison for Bribing Susan Collins. She's... Totally Fine Somehow?

OA1299 - This week on Rapid Response Friday: what crimes might Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) have been complicit in, and why won't she ever b...

01:02:14Sep 25, 2026

The Real Reason Coyote v. Acme Was Buried (It's So Much Worse Than a Tax Write-Off)

Coyote vs. Acme is such a fun movie. Thomas and Lydia saw it with the kids, Matt tried to borrow some kids to see it with, and has some fun...

01:04:45Sep 24, 2026

The USPS Ballot Scheme Was Even Worse Than You Thought

OA1298 - Voting rights attorney Jenessa is back with a sprawling tour of election chaos, starting with the Supreme Court's unsigned order in...

58:41Sep 21, 2026

Kash Patel Screws the Pooch

OA1297 - This week on Rapid Response Friday: SCOTUS once again confirms the color of the sky, the latest failures in DOJ’s attempts to prose...

51:11Sep 18, 2026