Dumb Defenses

This week, Frankie and Judah are looking at the state of free speech protections in the 1950's, and people getting in trouble for exercising it.

Jacobellis v. Ohio: https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ll/usrep/usrep378/usrep378184/usrep378184.pdf

PBS videos on McCarthy: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/mccarthy-anatomy-investigation/

This week, Frankie and Judah wrap up their discussion on sovereign citizens with some recent updates about the movement and discussing a citizen who was also a sovereign. There are also side discussions about the COVID pandemic and some courtroom excitement.

Video of Linn County courtroom incident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wJmlTAyDVI

Video of Linn County standoff (long): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtsprSJvqNM

News coverage of Linn County standoff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KdmfviivAM

Emperor Norton Trust: https://emperornortontrust.org/emperor/intro

Rename the tunnel: https://emperornortontrust.org/emperor-norton-tunnel

Frankie and Judah start off by continuing their discussion on conspiracy theories, and then dive back into sovereign citizens, including current exciting cases for the sovereign citizen community, paper terrorism, and quantum language.

Example of quantum language: https://www.scribd.com/document/472335389/Syntax-Master-for-Correct-Language

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More fun useless language: https://sebpearce.com/bullshit/

In this episode, Frankie and Judah begin their deep dive into the world of sovereign citizens. Judah begins with a flyover of Australia, and then Frankie begins in 1971 and works forward, discussing the beliefs, tricks, and tactics of this niche legal community.

Please email us your favorite conspiracy theory, and we'll read it in a future episode!

In this episode, Frankie and Judah describe run-ins with the law of both locally famous and nationally famous Bundys - Ammon Bundy and Ted Bundy.

Correction: the 9th circuit includes Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington.

Frankie and Judah explore the story of an Australian man who made an interesting choice and a number of Americans who thought life a little too closely simulated art.

This week, Frankie and Judah explore the case of a Japanese pinup model who was saved by her breasts (video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv3CbFRNzM8 ) and the case of the man who killed a legend (cw: murder, hate crimes, and suicide).

This week, Frankie and Judah explore culpability across the ages, starting from ye olden French church trials and culminating with semi-modern Canada.

In their pilot episode, Frankie talked about advertisements that do - and don't - form contracts, which lead to the court making fun of a plaintiff, while Judah talked about whether or not a house can be legally deemed "haunted."