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Legal Question: Do Cops Need a Warrant to Search Your Hotel Room?
This question comes from Austin, who asks: Can cops just bust into your hotel room without a warrant? We’re watching “Law and Order: SVU,” and the cops had the hotel manager open up someone’s hotel room without the hotel guest’s… Continue reading
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In Defense of “Dicked Down in Dallas”
As I was researching our most recent Sinisterhood minisode, I decided to search Spotify for some songs about Dallas that I may not have heard before. Up popped Willie Nelson’s “Dallas,” an old favorite. Then I scrolled to Alan Jackson’s “Dallas,”… Continue reading
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Legal Question: Michael Scott’s Diary Drama
This question comes from my dear friend, Todd, who will also co-officiate our wedding soon! Todd asks: “Watching The Office where Michael’s journal is submitted in Jan’s wrongful termination deposition. He literally says he does not want it submitted. That should be… Continue reading
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9/11/2002
It was the fall semester of my sophomore year in high school. 2002. A weird time for anybody – being a sophomore in high school and all. But also a weird time for being an American – being post-9/11 and… Continue reading
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Don’t Look, Ethel!
Early one morning the week before Christmas I was scrolling through Twitter while drinking coffee. A woman tweeted that she tried showing a clip from the BBC game show Taskmaster to her family while visiting for the holidays. The tweeter’s parents watched… Continue reading
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Legal Question: Can you transfer venue so hard that you leave the state?
This week’s question comes from Christie via our upcoming minisode on the Murdaugh Murders (Part 2). Christie asked: Can you ask for a transfer of venue out of state? In an upcoming Sinisterhood minisode on the Murdaugh Murders update – part 2, Christie asked… Continue reading
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Hook, Line, and Sucker
Bouncing balls. Jumping children. Painted faces. Squeals. Screams. Laughter. Last weekend, Paris and I found ourselves the only childless couple at a four-year-old’s birthday party in a mini gymnasium. Kids flew around the foam-covered floors and walls, flipping and jumping,… Continue reading
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Legal Question: If your DNA is the same, can you get framed?
This question comes from Jamie via the form. Jamie asks: Say we lived in one of the many fictional universes where doppelgängers exist. If my doppelgänger commits a crime, could I be charged for it? Thanks for the question, Jamie!… Continue reading
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Journey Back to the Times
It was the first weekend in December 2021, and for the second time in a calendar year, Paris and I were walking through the parking lot of Medieval Times on our way to a matinee show. “We were just here,” I said,… Continue reading
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Legal Question: If there’s something strange and you get arrested, who ya gonna call? YOUR LAWYER
This week’s question was sparked by watching the new movie Ghostbusters: Afterlife. No spoilers, but in the movie, a character is arrested and demands to make their one phone call. As I was thoroughly enjoying that movie (seriously – go see… Continue reading
Heather versus the World 