{"podcast":{"title":"Opening Arguments","slug":"opening-arguments-1055646","podcast_index_feed_id":1055646,"rss_url":"https://openargs.libsyn.com/","website_url":"http://openargs.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/2/6/1/9/261949e1b6a8cd5ae55e3c100dce7605/OA_Podcast_2024_FINAL-20240722-03wker1cxp.jpg","author":"Opening Arguments Media LLC","episode_count":1260,"summary":"Opening Arguments is a law show that helps you make sense of the news! Comedian Thomas Smith brings on legal analysts to help you understand not only current events, but also deeper legal concepts and areas! The typical schedule will be M-W-F with Monday being a deep-dive, Wednesday being Thomas Takes the Bar Exam and patron shoutouts, and Friday being a rapid response to legal issues in the news!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-15T20:19:28.616997+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646"},"episode":{"title":"Nancy Mace Thinks Anyone With a Foreign Name Is Disloyal","slug":"nancy-mace-thinks-anyone-with-a-foreign-name-is-disloyal","published_at":"2026-07-15T09:42:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/nancy-mace-thinks-anyone-with-a-foreign-name-is-disloyal","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646","url":"https://sites.libsyn.com/86258/nancy-mace-thinks-anyone-with-a-foreign-name-is-disloyal","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/35/clrtpod.com/m/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/openargs/VR38.mp3?dest-id=455562","summary":"VR38 - This week in Vapid Response Thomas, Lydia, and Matt review some truly awful takes from a MAGA economist on the true cause of low crime rates, Rep. Nancy Mace on her extremely real and not-at-all-racist concerns about the dangers of judges with dual citizenship, and a then-20-year-old Rolling Stone columnist in 1969 on his immediate disdain for what would become one of the greatest rock albums of all time. “ Trump’s Immigration Enforcement Really is Slashing Violent Crime ,” John R. Lott, Jr, The Federalist (July 9, 2026) FBI’s National Crime Victims Survey data “ Governing America means loyalty to America ,” Rep. Nancy Mace, Newsweek (July 4, 2026) Judge Sparkle Sooknanan’s preliminary injunction order in League of Women Voters v DHS Judicial nominee Sparkle Sooknanan’s responses to Sen. Lindsay Graham’s judicial questionnaire (March 20, 2024) “ The Top 15 Bullshit Album Reviews That Rolling Stone Magazine Had the Balls to Publish ,” Reel Harmonies (July 14, 2014) Check out the OA Linktree for all the places to go and things to do!","meta_description":"VR38 - This week in Vapid Response Thomas, Lydia, and Matt review some truly awful takes from a MAGA economist on the true cause of low crime rates, Rep.…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3742,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/opening-arguments-1055646/episodes/nancy-mace-thinks-anyone-with-a-foreign-name-is-disloyal/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/nancy-mace-thinks-anyone-with-a-foreign-name-is-disloyal.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}