After almost two years Charles, Eric and Patrick are back with special guest Tim from ALAB Series.

Segment 1: Jarkesy v. SEC - The Fifth Circuit sets the administrative state on fire because they can.

Segment 2: Patel v. Garland - The Supreme Court gives immigration judges more authority to screw up without consequence than anyone ever wanted them to have.

Segment 3: FEC v Ted Cruz for Senate - The Supreme Court not only legalizes bribes but says they are required by the First Amendment.

Charles: https://twitter.com/ugarles
Eric: https://twitter.com/ericmichel
Patrick: https://twitter.com/veryimportant
Tim: https://twitter.com/garliccorgi
Hostile Witness: https://twitter.com/HostilePodcast

Music: Thanks to Riverboat Gamblers (Intro: Blue Ghosts) and Patrick Cosmos (Interstitial: Fear of Heights). Used with permission.

Production: Thanks to Dan for the quick turnaround and sound editing. (https://twitter.com/Enterim_ and listen to his band Candy Necklace, new LP out soon: https://candynecklacephl.bandcamp.com/).

006 - The Beginning of the End

In the first of a two-part episode, Charles, Patrick and Eric take you through the saga of the Mar-a-Lago search from the dispute with the National Archives through the appointment of the Special Master.

Charles - https://twitter.com/Ugarles
Patrick - https://twitter.com/veryimportant
Eric - https://twitter.com/ericmichel

Theme music: Blue Ghosts by The Riverboat Gamblers https://riverboatgamblers.bandcamp.com/

Interstitial music: Fear of Heights by Patrick Cosmos. I know I said Fear of Flying on the outro. Sorry about that. https://bigsleeprecords.bandcamp.com/album/tonal-rotors

Sound editing by Jeb Lund (http://twitter.com/mobute), host of the Hallmark Movie podcast It's Christmastown: https://soundcloud.com/user-88203620

More sound editing and editing editing by Dan Parshall (http://twitter.com/enterim_). Listen to his band, Candy Necklace. https://candynecklacephl.bandcamp.com/album/candy-necklace

007 - Mar-a-Lago Under Seige

In the second of a two-part episode, Charles and Patrick take you through the saga of the Mar-a-Lago search from the appointment of the Special Master up to the date of release, including the litigation in the 11th Circuit and the Special Master's latest orders.

Charles - https://twitter.com/Ugarles
Patrick - https://twitter.com/veryimportant
Eric - https://twitter.com/ericmichel

Theme music: Blue Ghosts by The Riverboat Gamblers https://riverboatgamblers.bandcamp.com/

Interstitial music: Fear of Heights by Patrick Cosmos. I know I said Fear of Flying on the outro. Sorry about that. https://bigsleeprecords.bandcamp.com/album/tonal-rotors

Sound editing by Dan Parshall (http://twitter.com/enterim_). Listen to his band, Candy Necklace. https://candynecklacephl.bandcamp.com/album/candy-necklace

008 - The Most Special of Masters (Mar-a-Lago Part 2)

Charles Star and L. Ron Mexico are joined by your good friend Jesse Farrar of Your Kickstarter Sucks and the Go Off Kings on Twitch.

Charles (@ugarles on twitter and @ugarles.bsky.social)
L. Ron (@lronmexico on twitter and @lronmexico.bsky.social)
Jesse (@bronzehammer on twitter and @jessefarrar.bsky.social) plus find Jesse at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-kickstarter-sucks/id1204911385 and https://www.twitch.tv/gooffkings

Some sound editing by Dan Parshall - @enterim.bsky.social and Candy Necklace https://candynecklacephl.bandcamp.com/ but I'm going to be honest, I added some stuff after I got it back from him so I hope he doesn't sue me for putting his name on here.

City Saint and Country Saint Episode 2 - vs Titans with Jesse Farrar

Charles Star and L. Ron Mexico are joined by the NFL Network's Patrick Claybon to talk about how the Saints defense is for real but who knows because the Panthers offense ... woof.

Twitter/Bluesky for everyone:
Charles - @ugarles 
L. Ron Mexico - @LRonMexico
Patrick - @patrickclaybon

Plus big thanks to Dan Parshall for fixing our sound levels. listen to Candy Necklace at https://candynecklacephl.bandcamp.com.

City Saint and Country Saint Episode 3 - vs Panthers with Patrick Claybon

It's a weird one, folks. Our guest's audio file was corrupted and useless, so the episode is a 20 minute chop job of whatever Charles could salvage from the hosts' tracks plus a short interlude where Alex (@vodkalemonades) talks trash on behalf of all Packer fans after their come-from-behind 18-17 win.

Also, shout out to our original guest, Matt Christman, whose absence started for the best reason (his daughter's birth!) before turning scary with the downturn in his health. Get well soon, @cushbomb.

This was done last minute so our usual audio engineer has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS the low hum under my track is all on me.

City Saint and Country Saint Episode 4 S1W3 Packers - vodkalemonades Sort Of

Charles Star and L. Ron Mexico are joined by Tampa's Jeb "@mobute" Lund of the It's Christmastown podcast after the awful loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Additional sadness provided by our Man in the Dome, Ron's offline friend Chris. 

Thanks to Dan Parshall for sound editing in a hurry. You can find his band, Candy Necklace, at https://candynecklacephl.bandcamp.com/album/no-life-low-life.

City Saint and Country Saint Episode 5 S1W4 Buccaneers - Jeb Lund

Charles Star and L. Ron Mexico welcome Boston's own Luke O'Neil, author of the Welcome to Hell World newsletter (and books) and the short fiction collection A Creature Wanting Form. Luke joins us to talk about the Saints evisceration of the Patriots. Because Hell World is heavy, we got into some heavier current events.

Charles Star - https://bsky.app/profile/ugarles.bsky.social
L. Ron Mexico - https://bsky.app/profile/lronmexico.bsky.social
Luke O'Neil - https://bsky.app/profile/lukeoneil47.bsky.social 

Buy Luke's books and subscribe to his newsletter at https://www.welcometohellworld.com/

Thanks to LunarSnow for sound engineering.

City Saint and Country Saint Episode 6 S1W5 Patriots - Luke O'Neil

It's a two game winning streak for Ron and Charles to celebrate after a 35-14 win over the Cleveland Browns. Eric Peacock (Soundtracker) and David Roth (Defector / The Distraction / It's Christmastown) return to the podcast, this time because Eric is theoretically a Browns fan. Plus, Ron talked to our Man in the Dome, Skooks.

Eric podcasts at Soundtracker: https://pod.link/1582643161

David writes at Defector.com and podcasts at 
The Distraction (https://pod.link/1525039108) 
It's Christmastown (https://pod.link/1407429849)

Thank you to Snxwyfish for the sound engineering; listen to his music at linktr.ee/Snxwyfish

Socials:
Charles Star ugarles.bsky.social
L. Ron Mexico lronmexico.bsky.social
Eric Peacock uwebollocks.bsky.social
David Roth davidjroth.bsky.social
Skooks skookses.bsky.social

City Saint / Country Saint S2E11 - Browns - David Roth & Eric Peacock

Ron had a rough week but Charles was joined by Will Leitch to talk about the Saints 20-13 loss. Ron returned for Man in the Dome with Skooks. 

Charles https://bsky.app/profile/ugarles.bsky.social
Ron https://bsky.app/profile/lronmexico.bsky.social
Skooks https://bsky.app/profile/skookses.bsky.social
Will Leitch https://bsky.app/profile/williamfleitch.bsky.social

Find Lloyd McNeil's Last Ride here https://www.harpercollins.com/products/lloyd-mcneils-last-ride-will-leitch?variant=43101492314146

S3E1 Cardinals with Will Leitch

The Saints lose another one they had in their hands and Truthdig's Jeb Lund joins us to Get Our Ass. Skooks is back as our Man in the Dome as the Saints fall to 0-2 and Who Dat Nation loses control of the Dome to 49ers fans who don't like waiting to pee.

Charles Star https://bsky.app/profile/ugarles.bsky.social
L. Ron Mexico https://bsky.app/profile/lronmexico.bsky.social
Jeb Lund https://bsky.app/profile/mobute.bsky.social
Skooks https://bsky.app/profile/skookses.bsky.social

Find Jeb's writing at http://truthdig.com and listen to his Hallmark podcast, It's Chrismastown (with David J. Roth) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/its-christmastown/id1407429849

S3E2 49ers with Jeb Lund

L. Ron and Charles welcome Spike Friedman to the pod after the Seahawks' dominant 44-13 win over the Saints. Nobody had fun, except for Spike, who is enjoying a golden year of Seattle sports.

S3E3 Seahawks with Spike Friedman

A trip to Buffalo went better than expected but in the end it was still a 31-19 loss for our heros. Joining L. Ron and Charles on the pod is Buffalo native and lifelong Bills fan Victoria Zeller, author of the YA novel One of the Boys. 

Find Victoria's work - including book links at https://victoria.monster/

Charles Star https://bsky.app/profile/ugarles.bsky.social
L. Ron Mexico https://bsky.app/profile/lronmexico.bsky.social
Victoria Zeller https://bsky.app/profile/dirtbagqueer.rocks

Sound engineering by Snxwyfish. Find his music at snxwyfish.bandcamp.com

S3E4 Bills with Victoria Zeller (DirtbagQueer)

The Saints finally get a W (26-14 over the Giants) and David Roth joins Charles to talk about, well, not the game exactly, but game-adjacent things. L. Ron wasn't able to join the main chat but he was available to talk to Charles and Skooks, our Man in the Dome. And even though he couldn't join the chat, Ron managed to Get Dave's Ass. Plus, Charles lets his bar buddy Alex vent a little. There's a lot of Skattebo going on.

You can listen to Dave at The Distraction (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-distraction-a-defector-podcast/id1525039108) or It's Christmastown (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/its-christmastown/id1407429849) and read his shizz at Defector.com.

Thanks for cleaning up the sound, Snxwyfish. Listen to his music at https://linktr.ee/Snxwyfish

Charles Star https://bsky.app/profile/ugarles.bsky.social
L. Ron Mexico https://bsky.app/profile/lronmexico.bsky.social
David Roth https://bsky.app/profile/davidjroth.bsky.social
Skooks https://bsky.app/profile/skookses.bsky.social

City Saint / Country Saint S3E5 Giants with David Roth

Another depressing loss for the Saints, this time for the Patriots, but at least L. Ron and Charles get to welcome in the charming Josh Gondelman. Skooks is a breath of fresh air as the Man in the Dome, refusing to let losing get in the way of watching a young team develop in a fun way.

Josh is everywhere, including his newsletter, That's Marvelous (https://www.thatsmarvelousnewsletter.com/) and his most recent comedy special, Positive Reinforcement (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAvNlgpdKKo). Plus, he cohosts the comedy shows Frankenstein's Baby (https://www.instagram.com/frankenbabynyc/?hl=en) and 'Sup Bro at Union Hall in Park Slope.

Thanks for cleaning up the sound, Snxwyfish. Listen to his music at linktr.ee/Snxwyfish

Charles Star https://bsky.app/profile/ugarles.bsky.social
L. Ron Mexico https://bsky.app/profile/lronmexico.bsky.social
Josh Gondelman https://bsky.app/profile/joshgondelman.bsky.social
Skooks https://bsky.app/profile/skookses.bsky.social

City Saint / Country Saint S3E6 - Patriots with Josh Gondelman

Charles went out to Chicago to watch the Saints play their worst game of the year as they lost 26-14 to the Bears and fell to 1-6. At least he was there with friends. Two of his old buddies from Hostile Witness - Patrick Cosmos and Eric Michel - were able to join Charles at the game and in the "studio" with Ron as well to look back at the game and try to figure out where it all went wrong.

Patrick's latest album, Future National Sports, is available on Bandcamp (with the rest of his albums) at https://patrickcosmos.bandcamp.com/album/future-national-sports. Eric doesn't do that sort of thing. Everyone's on Bluesky, though! 

Charles Star bsky.app/profile/ugarles.bsky.social
L. Ron Mexico bsky.app/profile/lronmexico.bsky.social
Patrick Cosmos bsky.app/profile/veryimportant.lawyer
Eric Michel bsky.app/profile/ericmichel.bsky.social

City Saint / Country Saint S3E7 Bears with Patrick Cosmos and Eric Michel

Another rough loss, 23-3 to the Tampa Bay Bucs at home. Charles and L. Ron welcome a new Bucs fan to the podcast, comedian Paul Pallotta, who relished the opportunity to rub their noses in it A BIT MUCH. Sadly, no Man in the Dome.

You can find all of buy tickets to Paul's "The Benny Winner Show" at The P.I.T. at https://thepit-nyc.com/events/?search_type=event_class&s=benny&mc_series=&mc_venue=all&xd_posttype=any

Charles Star bsky.app/profile/ugarles.bsky.social
L. Ron Mexico bsky.app/profile/lronmexico.bsky.social
Paul Pallotta http://simplyapauling.com for links to all socials

City Saint / Country Saint S3E8 Bucs 1 with Paul Pallotta

The Saints were humiliated once again, this time 34-10 by the Rams, and Ron and Charles are starting to get tired of it. Nobody was here to get our asses because we have another ex-fan joining us. St. Louis's own Alex Turpin bailed on the team when they bailed on his city but Charles and Alex talked football, losing a team and some moderate reminiscing about Mic Dicta. Plus some news about the offseason for the pod.

Listen to Alex's Here's a Guy podcast at https://open.spotify.com/show/7cp80QN8h1aN3zSR6wD6ju

Charles Star bsky.app/profile/ugarles.bsky.social
L. Ron Mexico bsky.app/profile/lronmexico.bsky.social
Alex Turpin bsky.app/profile/turpin4prez.bsky.social

City Saint / Country Saint S3E9 Rams with Alex Turpin of Here's A Guy

Well would you look at that! A happy Ron and Charles enjoy the aftermath of a 17-7 win over the division "rival" Carolina Panthers. We don't have a guest this week but that doesn't stop us from getting the ass of our old friends from the For Panthers Only podcast. 

You can hear the Hannukah episode of It's Christmastown with Charles at https://daveandjebarentmean.libsyn.com/141-the-great-yiddish-bake-off. Unfortunately his Blackout Diaries entry hasn't dropped yet, but we'll post it when it does.

City Saint / Country Saint S3E10 Panthers - Just Us

It's the bye week so Charles and Ron relax and enjoy the win over the Panthers for another week. Joining them on the pod this week, former Minnesota Vikings punter and current candidate for California State Assembly, Chris Kluwe. We talk about his development as a punter, his career from winning his job to the hazards of making noise about politics and his current campaign to represent an Assembly seat in Orange County on the Democratic line.

You can read more about Chris's campaign at https://kluweoc.com

Charles Star https://bsky.app/profile/ugarles.bsky.social
L. Ron Mexico https://bsky.app/profile/lronmexico.bsky.social
Chris Kluwe https://bsky.app/profile/chriswarcraft.bsky.social (and https://bsky.app/profile/kluweoc.bsky.social)

City Saint / Country Saint S3E11 Bye week with Chris Kluwe

The Saints go down hard again, 24-10 to the Falcons. Ron and Charles are losing faith in Kellen Moore. Jason Kirk stops by to get our ass. Skooks is resigned but will keep showing up and taught Charles about merliton. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

Join the Shutdown Fullcast Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/cw/ShutdownFullcast and Hell is a World Without You remains a great read. https://www.jasonkirk.fyi/p/novel

Charles Star bsky.app/profile/ugarles.bsky.social
L. Ron Mexico bsky.app/profile/lronmexico.bsky.social
Jason Kirk bsky.app/profile/jasonkirk.fyi
Skooks  bsky.app/profile/skookses.bsky.social

City Saint/Country Saint S3E12 Falcons w Jason Kirk

Charles and Ron get stupid after a frustrating game with two very different halves in a 21-17 loss to Miami. We get our own ass bceause we don't have a guest. 

City Saint / Country Saint S3E13 Miami - Just Us

City Saint / Country Saint S2E14 Bucs 2 - Just Us

City Saint / Country Saint S3E15 - Panthers 2 - Just Us

Three game winning streak! Skooks stops by to talk about the last two home wins but mostly L. Ron and Charles get psyched for the future after a 29-6 win over the Jets.

Merry Christmas, everyone.

Charles Star bsky.app/profile/ugarles.bsky.social
L. Ron Mexico bsky.app/profile/lronmexico.bsky.social
Skooks bsky.app/profile/skookses.bsky.social


S3E16 City Saint/Country Saint - Jets - Just Us

Four wins in a row by the Saints, 34-26 over the Titans on the road this week, but it barely compares to our guest, the lovely Jesse Farrar of Your Kickstarter Sucks and The Go Off Kings. 

You can support Jesse via the YKS Patreon https://www.patreon.com/cw/yourkickstartersucks or the Go Off Kings Twitch channel https://www.twitch.tv/gooffkings. Or you could listen to YKS too. https://podbay.fm/p/your-kickstarter-sucks

Our soundn engineer Snxwyfish's music is available at linktr.ee/Snxwyfish

Socials:
Charles Star - https://bsky.app/profile/ugarles.bsky.social
L. Ron Mexico - https://bsky.app/profile/lronmexico.bsky.social
Jesse Farrar - https://bsky.app/profile/jessefarrar.com

City Saint/Country Saint S3E17 - Titans with Jesse Farrar

Episode 1, finally. Patrick Cosmos and Eric Michel join Charles Star to discuss the Supreme Court's embarrassing decision to in Hernandez v Mesa and bogus defamation lawsuits from Tulsi Gabbard, Roy Moore and Larry Klayman.

Charles Star: @ugarles
Patrick Cosmos: @veryimportant
Eric Michel: @ericmichel

Thanks to Jeb @mobute Lund for his production help, @mikeweibe for letting us use the Riverboat Gambles' Blue Ghosts in the intro and Patrick for letting me use his Fear of Hights for the interstitials.

001 - Crossing The Line

Charles Star, Patrick Cosmos and Eric Michel talk about the mocking cruelty of Trump's Fifth Circuit judges toward gay and trans litigants and Lauren Walker joins Charles to talk about the trans health issues underlying the litigation.

Theme: Blue Ghosts by Riverboat Gamblers
Interstitials: Fear of Heights by Patrick Cosmos

Charles Star (@ugarles)
Patrick Cosmos (@veryimportant)
Eric Michel (@ericmichel)
Lauren Walker (@notabigjerk)
Sound engineering by Daniel Parshall (@enterim_)

Take The Fifth.... Please

Randolph Brickey joins Charles Star to talk about Ramos v. Louisiana, a recent Supreme Court case that finally clarified that Louisiana and Oregon have to stop using non-unanimous juries and a series of cases (Ellis v. State (NC). Clark v Crawford (WDVA) and Howse v, Houdos (6th Cir.)) about the mixed messages courts give about telling the police how you really feel.

Charles Star - @ugarles
Randolph Brickey - @hithertofore
Hostile Witness - @HostilePodcast

Thanks to: 
Dan Parshall (@enterim_) for sound engineering
Mike Wiebe (@mikewiebe) and Riverboat Gamblers (@thegamblers) for the theme, "Blue Ghosts" 
Patrick Cosmos (@veryimportant) for the interstitial music "Fear of Heights".
and my wife and mom because it's Mother's Day

003 - Something We Can All Agree On

Charles Star is joined again by Patrick Cosmos and Eric Michel. The discussion starts with Bridgegate and the Supreme Court's latest refusal to let prosecutors punish public corruption and finishes with Judge Justin Walker's ridiculous injunction against a non-existent order to shut down drive-in Easter services.

Charles Star - @ugarles
Eric Michel - @ericmichel
Patrick Cosmos - @veryimportant

Thanks to Dan Parshall for sound engineering and to Mike Weibe and Riverboat Gamblers (theme - Blue Ghosts) and Patrick Cosmos (bumpers - Fear of Heights) for the music.

004 - Closing Down Lanes

A podcast about law at the end of the world. Bear with us.

AND a home for a podcast about football at the end of the Mississippi River. WHO DAT saving fees on SoundCloud hosting?

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