Episode 23: "When I Tried To Cross The White Wall; The Free Folk, Refugees, and the Wall."
Learned Hands: The Official Podcast of the Westerosi Bar Association
English - October 11, 2021 08:00 - 3 hours - 126 MBBooks Arts Fiction Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Episode 22: "Horny Issues: the Hornwood Inheritance Crisis"
Next Episode: Episode 24: “Dance Party, Vol. IV; Bloody Moves”
In this twenty-third episode of Learned Hands, the Official Podcast of the Westerosi Bar Association, Maester Merry, Clint from Laws of Ice and Fire, and special guest Akash J. Saran, J.D., ask: Does any leader at the Wall have 'good' immigration policies? How do they compare to those in the real world?
Our analysis this week includes:
We describe how the Free Folk are similar to refugees, asylees, and immigrants.Special guest Akash gives us a full rundown of the history of US immigration laws.Merry and her Law Hounds deliver a passionate defense of amnesty.Clint does his best accent work, probably ever.The team does a deep dive of Jon Snow's immigration policies.Learned Hands interrogates the legitimacy of the Wall itself.An update on the Westerosi Bar Association and the 2021-2022 Pledge drive.A musical cold open.Seriously, the accents are bananas.Supplemental reading:
Bumpers by Sanrixian. Intro & Outro music courtesy Sid Luscious & The Pants. None of this should be construed as legal advice OBVIOUSLY.