September 30, 2024 • 10 mins
First, Jack offers 2 outstanding ways to kill time! Next, Joe shares some wonderfully written legal briefs, or Fact Summaries, as they were originally written!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Bunch of monosyllabic morons. It's one more thing. I'm strong
and getty, one more thing before we get to that.
I just was looking up at the TV.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Remember the other day, I said, if you want to
kill time, she's who needs to kill time in the
modern world. But you want to kill more time with
more stupid stuff. Boat docking fails or a good YouTube
stream people trying to park their boat and not going well,
(00:36):
it's pretty funny. But I just saw one. Dirty Dancing fails.
It's people who want to do the dirty dancing jump
for their wedding. So in the movie Dirty Dancing, Jennifer
Gray probably weighed ninety eight pounds, runs down this you know,
runs in this room full of people who who parted
(00:57):
weighs for the big dance. She runs and leaps into
the air into Patrick Swayzey, who's in really good shape,
catches are in the air and holds her over his head. Well,
apparently lots of people like to do this for their wedding,
and either the bride weighs more than Jennifer Gray did
or the dude's not as strong as Patrick Swayzey. Plus
it requires an amount of athletic ability, and they don't
(01:18):
always go well. So it is dirty dancing fails, and
some of them are well, they're kind of gruesome. Lots
of women falling on their heads. Oh, lots of they
just kind of go through the guy's arms and fall
right on their heads. Oh my god. Or the dresses
flip upside down or whatever. But yeah, so if you
need to kill some time today after boat docking fails,
(01:38):
do dirty dancing fails.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Wow, I'm a big fan of bullies and robbers who
f around and find out.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yes, yeah, because the justice there.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
But I've been watching side show fails. Oh that one
out of a leo from over the weekend, the guy's
pants caught on fire. Oh, that was a good time.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
My best friend in high school did that. He tried
to do a donut in front of the school when
we got out, in front of everybody, thought it'd be
cool in his new truck and lost control and ran
into the telephone pole right there in the corner in
front of everyone. Whoops, They send him home. He came
(02:19):
back the next day, but man, the amount of ridicule
for crashing your car into a pole right in front
of everyone. Yeah, on a beautiful afternoon. I can still
picture it. Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Yeah, people would bring that up fifty years down the line.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Yeah, that's coming up at the reunion for sure.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
People often say you'll never live that down, but that's
the winter. Yeah. So my youngest is in law school,
and Judie and I went to visit and I was
looking through one of her legal books, flipping.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Through it, and.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I said, wow, this is interesting. I'd sit here and
read this if I had time. She said, I got
a good one for you. So a lot of it
is a lot of first year law school anyway. In
this class is you read through cases and then you
summarize them and talk about the legal principles involved. You know,
just what you'd think it would be. But she says, Dad,
you got to read this. And she gave me the
case courtis v. Peerless Transportation Company, and I was trying
(03:16):
to find it for the purposes of either the radio
show or the podcast whatever, and I found the modern
brief fact summary and it is as follows, and we're
going somewhere to those with this. But a taxi driver
working for the defendant Peerless Transportation Company jumped from his
taxi while it was running to escape an armed highwayman
who was being pursued by his victim. The car now driverless,
(03:39):
ran up onto a sidewalk and injured the plaintiff, cortis
a pedestrian. So that's the fact summary. That is the
modern fact summary. I am now going to read you
the original fact summary from nineteen forty one.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
And nineteen forty one. Picture of those old timey kind
of taxis.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Oh yeah, there's all sorts of old timey cases that
they that they study, and every dude had a hat on.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
But and not only that, but and I don't want
to constantly be hammering the idea that we're getting dumber
and dumbers of people. But we are getting dumber and
dumbers of people, at least to some in some quarters.
Education is just different than it used to be. But
listen to this fact summary compared to the other one.
M This case presents the ordinary man, that problem child
(04:31):
of the law in a most bizarre setting. As a
lowly chauffeur in defendant's employee. He became in a trice
the protagonist in a breath baiting drama with a denument
almost tragic.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Wow. It appears that a man whose.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Identity it would be indelicate to divulge, was feloniously relieved
of his portable goods by two nondescript highwaymen in an
alley near twenty sixth Street and Third Avenue, Manhattan. They
induced him this is one of my favorites. Duced him
to relinquish his possessions by a strong argument. Ad Hominem
couched in the convincing cant of the criminal and pressed
(05:07):
at the point of a most persuasive pistol.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Who knew they paid by the syllable back.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
In the forties, so instead of saying he pointed a
gun at him and took his stuff. They induced him
to relinquish his possessions by a strong argument.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Ad Hominem couched in the convincing cant of.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
The criminal and pressed at the point of a most
persuasive pistol.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
That is pretty good.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
God, that's brilliant writing. Yeah, there's more.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Hang on a second, laden with their loute, but not
thereby impeded. They took an abrupt departure, and he, shuffling
off the coil of that discretion, which dmeshed him in
the alley, quickly gave chase through twenty sixth Street towards
Second Avenue, where they were, whether they were resorting quote
with expedition swift as thought for the most obvious reasons.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
If you follow, and most modern.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
People don't, because you use so many damn big words,
it's interesting.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Why would they do it that way just to be
entertaining or.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
You have to pay more attention to get to the
to keep it clear.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
It takes effort to retain the clarity in it, So
it would seem to be not a.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Great idea, right right, that's what I was wondering.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
It's again it's it's beautifully written, like yeah by the
letter practically, yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
It's excessive.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
So what what was the case though, was that was
somebody was the guy who got hurt on the sidewalk,
trying to blame the original chaser or the.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Well they separated, the two robbers separated, or or let
me put it this way, somewhere on that thoroughfare of escape,
they indulge the strategem of separation, ostensibly to disconcert.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
The pursuer and la the order of his pursuit. So
they separated to confuse him.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
You you were made to read these.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Yeah, anyway, so uh, and it goes on for paragraphs.
All of it is amusing, as the preceding what happened
was this guy gets robbed at gunpoint by a couple
of scumbags, and as they leave the alley, he decides
to chase them. They separate, one of them gets in
a cab. The guy's running after the cab scream and
(07:46):
stop him.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
He's a robber. He's a robber, and the driver's like,
he's a robber. The guy sticks the gun. Actually, I
gotta get to that part. The guy sticks his gun
at the cabby. Let's see.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
The driver confesses that the only act that smacked of
intelligence was that by which he jammed on the brakes
in order to throw off the balance of the hold
up man, who was half standing and half sitting with
his pistol menacingly poised. So anyway, this guy jams on
the brakes, the gunman smashes into the cab. Cabby jumps
(08:26):
out of the cab. It's now rolling driverless onto a sidewalk,
where it hits a woman and her two babies, none
grievously injured, thank god. But they are the plaintiffs in
the case and are suing the cab company. I don't
know why they Well, they'd gone after the scumbags, but
the cab company probably had deeper poets along and short
(08:47):
of the case.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yeah, interesting, I would like to know why they wrote
that way back in the day, though there has to
be a reason. It's definitely more entertaining.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
The uh A witness identified the criminal at the hospital.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Well, you could say it like that, or you could
say it like this.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
The women and the child were injured by the cab,
which at the time appeared to be also minus its passenger,
who it appears was apprehended in the cellar of a
local hospital.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Where he was pointed out to a police officer.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
By a remnant of the posse here before mentioned.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
I want to write like that.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
I would have so much trouble staying serious in court
if somebody was reading that.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
No kidding, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
So the guy ran away, Yes, he abandoned the caution
that had the forehead gripped him and took to the
limbless men will if they are thereby equipped bra.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
So he ran away.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Yes, what happened?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Well, I guess that's it. Michael brought low by that
I was
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Trying to do the opposite of your high energy
Bunch of monosyllabic morons. It's one more thing. I'm strong
and getty, one more thing before we get to that.
I just was looking up at the TV.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Remember the other day, I said, if you want to
kill time, she's who needs to kill time in the
modern world. But you want to kill more time with
more stupid stuff. Boat docking fails or a good YouTube
stream people trying to park their boat and not going well,
(00:36):
it's pretty funny. But I just saw one. Dirty Dancing fails.
It's people who want to do the dirty dancing jump
for their wedding. So in the movie Dirty Dancing, Jennifer
Gray probably weighed ninety eight pounds, runs down this you know,
runs in this room full of people who who parted
(00:57):
weighs for the big dance. She runs and leaps into
the air into Patrick Swayzey, who's in really good shape,
catches are in the air and holds her over his head. Well,
apparently lots of people like to do this for their wedding,
and either the bride weighs more than Jennifer Gray did
or the dude's not as strong as Patrick Swayzey. Plus
it requires an amount of athletic ability, and they don't
(01:18):
always go well. So it is dirty dancing fails, and
some of them are well, they're kind of gruesome. Lots
of women falling on their heads. Oh, lots of they
just kind of go through the guy's arms and fall
right on their heads. Oh my god. Or the dresses
flip upside down or whatever. But yeah, so if you
need to kill some time today after boat docking fails,
(01:38):
do dirty dancing fails.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Wow, I'm a big fan of bullies and robbers who
f around and find out.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yes, yeah, because the justice there.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
But I've been watching side show fails. Oh that one
out of a leo from over the weekend, the guy's
pants caught on fire. Oh, that was a good time.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
My best friend in high school did that. He tried
to do a donut in front of the school when
we got out, in front of everybody, thought it'd be
cool in his new truck and lost control and ran
into the telephone pole right there in the corner in
front of everyone. Whoops, They send him home. He came
(02:19):
back the next day, but man, the amount of ridicule
for crashing your car into a pole right in front
of everyone. Yeah, on a beautiful afternoon. I can still
picture it. Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Yeah, people would bring that up fifty years down the line.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Yeah, that's coming up at the reunion for sure.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
People often say you'll never live that down, but that's
the winter. Yeah. So my youngest is in law school,
and Judie and I went to visit and I was
looking through one of her legal books, flipping.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Through it, and.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I said, wow, this is interesting. I'd sit here and
read this if I had time. She said, I got
a good one for you. So a lot of it
is a lot of first year law school anyway. In
this class is you read through cases and then you
summarize them and talk about the legal principles involved. You know,
just what you'd think it would be. But she says, Dad,
you got to read this. And she gave me the
case courtis v. Peerless Transportation Company, and I was trying
(03:16):
to find it for the purposes of either the radio
show or the podcast whatever, and I found the modern
brief fact summary and it is as follows, and we're
going somewhere to those with this. But a taxi driver
working for the defendant Peerless Transportation Company jumped from his
taxi while it was running to escape an armed highwayman
who was being pursued by his victim. The car now driverless,
(03:39):
ran up onto a sidewalk and injured the plaintiff, cortis
a pedestrian. So that's the fact summary. That is the
modern fact summary. I am now going to read you
the original fact summary from nineteen forty one.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
And nineteen forty one. Picture of those old timey kind
of taxis.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Oh yeah, there's all sorts of old timey cases that
they that they study, and every dude had a hat on.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
But and not only that, but and I don't want
to constantly be hammering the idea that we're getting dumber
and dumbers of people. But we are getting dumber and
dumbers of people, at least to some in some quarters.
Education is just different than it used to be. But
listen to this fact summary compared to the other one.
M This case presents the ordinary man, that problem child
(04:31):
of the law in a most bizarre setting. As a
lowly chauffeur in defendant's employee. He became in a trice
the protagonist in a breath baiting drama with a denument
almost tragic.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Wow. It appears that a man whose.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Identity it would be indelicate to divulge, was feloniously relieved
of his portable goods by two nondescript highwaymen in an
alley near twenty sixth Street and Third Avenue, Manhattan. They
induced him this is one of my favorites. Duced him
to relinquish his possessions by a strong argument. Ad Hominem
couched in the convincing cant of the criminal and pressed
(05:07):
at the point of a most persuasive pistol.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Who knew they paid by the syllable back.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
In the forties, so instead of saying he pointed a
gun at him and took his stuff. They induced him
to relinquish his possessions by a strong argument.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Ad Hominem couched in the convincing cant of.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
The criminal and pressed at the point of a most
persuasive pistol.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
That is pretty good.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
God, that's brilliant writing. Yeah, there's more.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Hang on a second, laden with their loute, but not
thereby impeded. They took an abrupt departure, and he, shuffling
off the coil of that discretion, which dmeshed him in
the alley, quickly gave chase through twenty sixth Street towards
Second Avenue, where they were, whether they were resorting quote
with expedition swift as thought for the most obvious reasons.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
If you follow, and most modern.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
People don't, because you use so many damn big words,
it's interesting.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Why would they do it that way just to be
entertaining or.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
You have to pay more attention to get to the
to keep it clear.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
It takes effort to retain the clarity in it, So
it would seem to be not a.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Great idea, right right, that's what I was wondering.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
It's again it's it's beautifully written, like yeah by the
letter practically, yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
It's excessive.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
So what what was the case though, was that was
somebody was the guy who got hurt on the sidewalk,
trying to blame the original chaser or the.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Well they separated, the two robbers separated, or or let
me put it this way, somewhere on that thoroughfare of escape,
they indulge the strategem of separation, ostensibly to disconcert.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
The pursuer and la the order of his pursuit. So
they separated to confuse him.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
You you were made to read these.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Yeah, anyway, so uh, and it goes on for paragraphs.
All of it is amusing, as the preceding what happened
was this guy gets robbed at gunpoint by a couple
of scumbags, and as they leave the alley, he decides
to chase them. They separate, one of them gets in
a cab. The guy's running after the cab scream and
(07:46):
stop him.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
He's a robber. He's a robber, and the driver's like,
he's a robber. The guy sticks the gun. Actually, I
gotta get to that part. The guy sticks his gun
at the cabby. Let's see.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
The driver confesses that the only act that smacked of
intelligence was that by which he jammed on the brakes
in order to throw off the balance of the hold
up man, who was half standing and half sitting with
his pistol menacingly poised. So anyway, this guy jams on
the brakes, the gunman smashes into the cab. Cabby jumps
(08:26):
out of the cab. It's now rolling driverless onto a sidewalk,
where it hits a woman and her two babies, none
grievously injured, thank god. But they are the plaintiffs in
the case and are suing the cab company. I don't
know why they Well, they'd gone after the scumbags, but
the cab company probably had deeper poets along and short
(08:47):
of the case.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yeah, interesting, I would like to know why they wrote
that way back in the day, though there has to
be a reason. It's definitely more entertaining.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
The uh A witness identified the criminal at the hospital.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Well, you could say it like that, or you could
say it like this.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
The women and the child were injured by the cab,
which at the time appeared to be also minus its passenger,
who it appears was apprehended in the cellar of a
local hospital.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Where he was pointed out to a police officer.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
By a remnant of the posse here before mentioned.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
I want to write like that.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
I would have so much trouble staying serious in court
if somebody was reading that.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
No kidding, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
So the guy ran away, Yes, he abandoned the caution
that had the forehead gripped him and took to the
limbless men will if they are thereby equipped bra.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
So he ran away.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Yes, what happened?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Well, I guess that's it. Michael brought low by that
I was
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Trying to do the opposite of your high energy
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