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Jordan (00:00:59.000)
Hello, everyone. Welcome back to fight knowledge. I am Jordan and unfortunately Dan is not with us today. He is still under the weather with an undisclosed but non life threatening illness. So luckily, we have the incredible Ace Attorney Morgan stringer joining me today. How are you?
Morgan Stringer (00:01:24.000)
I'm good. It's, I guess, my moniker I've gotten his ace associate but they mean the same thing. So
Jordan (00:01:33.000)
Oh, associate is an Ace Attorney
Morgan Stringer (00:01:35.000)
The video game.
Jordan (00:01:37.000)
I think I may have been thinking Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law that could be my only reference to law is Harvey Birdman. And then I think there was a dancing baby on Ally McBeal one time. That is what I've got.
Morgan Stringer (00:01:55.000)
I mean, that's a good place to start. So
Jordan (00:01:59.000)
well, I apologize for getting your appellation wrong. But thank you so much for joining me today. I suppose the first thing that we should talk about if you don't mind? Is an update on Alex's bankruptcy circumstances. What's the most recent information if you don't mind?
Morgan Stringer (00:02:18.000)
So um, do you know you're you're aware Jordan of how you get really mad when the media reports things about Alex and then it turns out to not really be that thing?
Jordan (00:02:29.000)
Me Good heavens. No, I have an even keeled fan of calm and quiet. Yes, I do. That's why I wanted you to start right here because I assume something is wrong.
Morgan Stringer (00:02:42.000)
Yeah. Dan is data some of wild crazy one. So we're missing that tornado with energy. But so speaking of that, I have the same thing where I'll, I'll have that same reaction when I see the press get these things wrong about, you know, disapprobation figures or pop culture figures. And also, with the law, it really frustrates me how, you know, we do have a lot of good legal reporters, Liz Williamson, for instance, she's done a great job on this. But Oh, of course, a lot of other people just need to stop, they need to stop. So. So frustrated, because I see the headline, and I see some tweets, you know, that, of course have 50,000 likes on them by this point saying, oh, Alex doesn't have to pay for one and a half billion dollar judgment, or he does have to pay that one and a half billion dollar judgment and a judge has, you know, taken away his ability to fight it. And of course, that's not what happened at all. So I thought I was crazy, actually, because I was saying, Well, you know, this, this outlet is saying it this happened. And I don't remember that happening. Have I you know, blacked out somehow and remembered something different. And no, it turns out, I was right. So it's a, there's a there is a consent judgment in place, which means that both Alex and the plaintiffs are agreeing to this. Everyone's in agreement.
Jordan (00:04:11.000)
Okay, wow. Okay, first off, that's that's a monumentous thing that you just said.
Morgan Stringer (00:04:18.000)
Yeah, so what happened is the families who have already had their cases heard, they those cases, they have lifted the stay on that. But the only things that are left are, I guess, a formal entry of judgment in the Texas case, which that case has already been, you know, basically, it's already done. And it's just so the judge can enter the judgment. And then in Connecticut, the only two motions left are Norm has a motion of remittitur, which means he wants the judge to reduce the judgment and the Connecticut case. Because the number is big. I wish I was exaggerating that reasoning, but
Jordan (00:04:55.000)
I made it when you're looking at a number like 1.5 better Really, and honestly, I feel like that's a reasonable ask just to be like, this numbers bigger than I understand. Yeah.
Morgan Stringer (00:05:07.000)
I mean, yeah, it's what do you divide it up by 15 people it and then you hear, you know, everything that happened and you hear the, you know, testimony in that courtroom, I could see where some people say, Oh, that's not even enough.
Jordan (00:05:20.000)
Oh, totally, totally. That was one of the things that I was thinking about in whenever the verdict was about to be handed down is, you know, before the Texas trial even happened, I said, the, I think it should be in the ballpark of 250 million or something along those lines. And it's like, how could a reasonable person though, get to a number that big? Like, I can't even understand what a million dollars is, in my real life, let alone a billion, you know,
Morgan Stringer (00:05:53.000)
yeah, well, you're kind of right on the money there. When you're talking about, you know, people like Robbie Parker, who did get about, I want to say total amount was 200 million, but including the punitive, and everything how it shakes out. But um, but yeah, so that's not what happened. What happened, though, is that the judgment has been lifted onto those cases just for procedural issues to go forward. Norm is also has a motion for a new trial, which everybody knows nor even knows that those Mote his motions are going to get denied. But basically, the bankruptcy court is saying, yeah, those judgments and go ahead and be entered, and then you can proceed with the appeals process. And those cases. Now, the Fontaine case and the Posner case, those are still stayed. Right as of right, right, right. So yeah, that's that's what's happening there. It was not a judge saying up, Alex has to write a check tomorrow, you know, and that's what I feel like a lot of people got wrong here. And also, I did want to say this hasn't come up yet. It has kind of come up in the background of the conversations, as I've kind of read between the lines, as I've listened to the attorneys speak in these hearings with Judge Lopez, and the bankruptcy court, but Bankruptcy Code section 533. A six actually prevents a debtor from being discharged for any debt for the willful and malicious injury by the debtor to another entity or to the property of another entity. So actually, awful and malicious injuries cannot be discharged in bankruptcy regardless. And okay, I think this is going to be litigated on if this counts, but I would say, you know, the punitive damages, which had to be awarded, if they were if, you know, you've the jury has found that his conduct was willful and malicious. I mean, it speaks to itself. Right. So I really just think that this these bankruptcies in the personal one and the company one is Alex delaying, because what I noticed was when I watched the latest Texas hearing, I saw Mark, essentially saying, Okay, well, we're fine to go ahead and schedule Fontaine and Posner because we can proceed against Alex Jones individually. And, you know, I get that lo and behold, December 2, he filed for personal bankruptcy. But I think that this is going to end up backfiring on him, I think his strategy here is that he is going to try to, you know, drag these families out, we're going to have to go through the whole bankruptcy process versus, you know, credit or committee and the personal one, there's, you know, we're going to have to submit plans to repay debt and negotiate all that out between all the creditors in the company one. So I think what he then does via appeals process, and I think what Alex is doing here is he's trying to number one, buy more time for himself. And number two, were these families down hoping that they'll settle?
Jordan (00:08:51.000)
Right, right. So essentially, whenever we read any reporting from the news for probably the next year or two, it should just be taken with a grain of salt. That means it's still going on. I mean, really, still a struggle.
Morgan Stringer (00:09:06.000)
Yeah. Any kind of, you know, illegal reporting, I feel needs, you know, huge asterisk behind it, you know, it's just I don't understand what's going on with legal reporting. And of course, I'm an attorney. So I'm picky about that. But it's still I just wish people would
Jordan (00:09:23.000)
think you're running into you're running into a big problem with legal reporting. And so far as the people who read news wants something to have happened, and in the law, things are always about to happen. Oh, once that motion gets filed, then we'll see you in a couple of weeks. And once that couple of weeks happens, well, we'll file some more motions, you know, like that's kind of the struggle.
Morgan Stringer (00:09:49.000)
It is I and I definitely can see that. Yeah, I mean, there is a lot it doesn't make for a splashy headline, right.
Jordan (00:09:58.000)
Right. Yeah, things on go. hang there are some
Morgan Stringer (00:10:01.000)
some things to add that you wish that they could have actually reported, like the fact that Alex was popping in and out of his latest hearing, it was virtually virtual on Zoom. And he kept you know, all right, hopping in and out, you know, talking.
Jordan (00:10:14.000)
What was what was he doing popping in and out?
Morgan Stringer (00:10:18.000)
I have no idea. I don't know if it was his zoom being glitchy. But yeah, I have no idea. I think he was just, uh, you know, again, it shows his lack of seriousness, you know, in the these cases, as usual. And of course, and yeah, his attorney actually claimed that he needed a basically did the I need money argument. So we one of the reasons why I think this is dumb is because now Alex is having to expose his finances. Right? He's having to risk right. And I think this was one of the dumbest things he could do when he filed for bankruptcy the first time I said, I can't believe he did that. So Jones is saying that his initially was saying his salary is 20,000 Every two weeks from the company bankruptcy filings?
Jordan (00:11:09.000)
I think I think most that's a that's a normal salary for most people, most average Joe's putting on their hard hats go into work every day. 20,000 every two weeks is regular, right?
Morgan Stringer (00:11:21.000)
I don't make a fraction of that much which, you know, maybe maybe I should be, you know, practicing law more like norm, which, you know, it was a whole other rant. But yeah, so the judge, the judge, but we
Jordan (00:11:34.000)
should probably buy some woke insurance, if
Morgan Stringer (00:11:39.000)
I can, I can make those house payments in no time. Exactly. But yeah, so if a judge was asked, though, to force free speech systems to pay Jones 54,000 every two weeks, and the judge said, Okay, well, I want to address this later. And you're going to have to submit to me more than just I need money. So
Jordan (00:12:01.000)
so if I so if I understand correctly. Alex's bankruptcy lawyer said to a judge, how about pay me almost three times as much every two weeks? And the reason is because I would like three times as much every two weeks.
Morgan Stringer (00:12:16.000)
That's what Alex himself was saying. Yes, that he made me paid out from from Infowars free speech systems. And hit Alex's lawyer also made the argument that if this was denied, that Alex will have to find more work.
Jordan (00:12:33.000)
Oh, god, yes, please, please. I want to see Alex's side gig. I want to see a side gig. If if you could watch Infowars broadcast, and then get in an Uber with Alex Jones. I think that would be the ultimate in in life really.
Morgan Stringer (00:12:54.000)
I which brings me to a question. I wanted to ask you, Jordan, what is the funniest job? What is the funniest second job that you think Alex could take?
Jordan (00:13:06.000)
I mean, the obvious answer would be mime. Because to sit to see him, you know, a street performing mime naturally he would have to be in the most public of spaces with the only restriction being a can't talk. Of course. That one's a good start. I think the other funny side job would be the person who feeds lions and then accidentally falls in in an Indiana Jones movie. That would be the way to go.
Morgan Stringer (00:13:37.000)
That was I mean he almost was a movie star. So
Jordan (00:13:41.000)
yeah, see, he's it was it's either Star Lord or being eaten by lions in Indiana Jones movie I'm fine with both truly but that's it that's you bring up something you have been watching almost all of these hearings if not all of them and regularly live tweeting these out Have you been has it literally been all of the hearings
Morgan Stringer (00:14:05.000)
um, I'm I think I may have because I did get a heads up from an attorney saying this is just a scheduling hearing you don't have to be here day off I didn't say it like that. He was very very nice about it but he was letting me know basically this is a meeting to schedule something in the future you know, just saying it's gonna be 10 minutes tops which I appreciate it but also I was just like, oh man, all these people are aware of me. Which
Jordan (00:14:38.000)
is so funny. Oh man, that is rare test.
Morgan Stringer (00:14:41.000)
I'm like oh god next week it's gonna be norm who deems me got me advice for me stronger.
Jordan (00:14:47.000)
That's like, that's like the most inverted Deep Throat that there ever could be like, there is a secret connection you have between the lawyers but in the in the parking alley. It's just hey, we'll see you tomorrow.
Morgan Stringer (00:14:59.000)
Yeah. I think there is actually, which, you know, I've been with all seriousness, I have been thanked by it. And I can't believe that they found anything of value as to what you know. I've said, but basically, yeah, so I, you know, notice, I've told you, you know, we just talked about this earlier where I'm not a big fan of a lot of legal reporting. And so I'm not a fan of a lot of legal analysts and law on crime was covering, you know, the first or baby actually covered the Connecticut trial, but I knew they're going to do a shameful job on that. And also, I knew a lot of bad actors. Were probably going to, you know, talk about the Texas trial and how Oh, poor Alex is being railroaded. And I really do not want that to happen. So what I do, because I don't know something is wrong with me was I decided to throw myself into the abyss and I said, Okay, I'm gonna watch this entire trial. And I'm going to just say what's happening and then give my legal analysis where I think I have some or give, you know, oh, this is what I would do. Or, you know, this is why I think Mark Bankston is doing X and here's, you know, where Renault was probably screwing up and needs to you know, change tactics and which happened, but not as much as not not
Jordan (00:16:15.000)
as right now. Right now, it's tactics were inconsistent and yet mystifying all the same. Oh,
Morgan Stringer (00:16:21.000)
man, that was also a challenge. I was watching you know, especially with the Connecticut trial just thinking I can't even get in your head to see what you're trying to do. So with Norm Oh, wait norm with with no,
Jordan (00:16:34.000)
yeah, when you were watching the the Austin, the Texas trial, you can see right now is a professional who's trying to do a law job, if you will, in my in my dumb way of saying it. And norm seemed like he was just throwing caution to the wind, dropping smoke bombs and falling asleep all over the place, right.
Morgan Stringer (00:16:55.000)
Oh, man. It was like, oh, man, the ending when he did that litigators prayer, I asked Andrew, Andrew Torres who I work for him at the firm. But
Jordan (00:17:06.000)
I asked Andrew Torres is my personal attorney, according to a Twitter conversation that I consider legally binding. Oh, I don't know that. But he should
Morgan Stringer (00:17:16.000)
Oh, well, it doesn't apply to me. I can tell you that. Not yet. Not yet. The night is young. But by Yeah. So Norm, it was just baffling. And I asked Andrew, I said, Is this a thing? I've never heard this in my life. Please tell me this isn't a thing. And Andrew said, when I told him about it, he said, I have no idea what the fuck that man was talking about. And also just what you know, what's going south, which I always say juries are mysterious creatures, you don't want to, you know, get inside their heads too much and psych yourself out. Because who knows, when groups of people come together, you know, what I care about versus what they're not going to care about. That's why I really like the jury questions in Texas. But anyway, so. But you know, it's going bad when the jurors were, you know, avoiding eye contact with norm. And he acknowledged in his closing like, oh, some of you are looking away. Oh, man, that was that was so rough. And
Jordan (00:18:22.000)
it is a little bit like Eric, I can clearly see I have brought all of you shame. And you don't want to be associated with me. Now. Here's why I am correct.
Morgan Stringer (00:18:34.000)
Yeah, but I also think that this strategy was done because there are trustees assigned to bankruptcy cases. And there's a whole conversation about oh, well, Alex is just gonna get on the stand and lie. And we know how often, you know, perjury isn't prosecuted, especially for a civil case. Right? They are for bankruptcy, fraud on the bankruptcy? Oh, yeah. There are people assigned in every bankruptcy case, it's called a trustee. And what they do is they basically cut most of the time, they're just overseeing to make sure of a bankruptcy court. And you know, it's going along smoothly, and everything's working according to procedure. But and these kinds of cases
Jordan (00:19:12.000)
in the trial of Alex Jones, it is not a most of the time scenario, it is not at all
Morgan Stringer (00:19:18.000)
it is not and because of the types of bankruptcy that he has filed here, you have a little bit more supervision here from the US Trustee. And basically what they can do is that it's their job, essentially, one of their major jobs is to look for fraud and make sure fraud isn't being done. And if they suspect it, they refer it to the Department of Justice, and it's investigated or oftentimes prosecuted. And a lot of times when that happens, they uncover a bunch of other crimes because chances are if you're lying to a bankruptcy court, you're probably not you know, up and up on the up and up on your books. Right. So yeah,
Jordan (00:19:55.000)
I was gonna say if you're one of these trustees at this point, you have to be Like, rubbing your hands together with maniacal Glee or something like that, right? Like, you look at everything Alex has done so far. And you go, Well, I don't know if I can fall asleep without hitting fraud on the way down. Like, it is unreal, right?
Morgan Stringer (00:20:17.000)
Yes. And you have to disclose, you know, these different assets, which I think, to me, I was thinking, Well, I would be paying especially close attention here, because it's going it might indicate where he has hidden some of his assets. Sure. And yeah, so you deaf? I was bewildered when he did. I mean, it's, it's no another delay tactic. And I think he's trying to get these families again, to settle and just agree to a lesser amount just so he goes away. But I mean, his behavior has been completely shameful, beyond shameful here, and I wouldn't. Why would you settle with him at this point?
Jordan (00:20:57.000)
No, it feels, uh, feels a little bit like he is almost pot committed to the strategy of like, stringing it out as long as I possibly can. And then maybe Hail Mary, they'll they'll get tired. But I mean, at this point, it's hard to imagine that being possible.
Morgan Stringer (00:21:17.000)
Yeah, it's going to and, you know, I know, we talked about earlier how it feels like there's a motion to, you know, do another motion later and things like, comes to an end. Yeah. And that, and that's, this is where that's going to come into play. And, yeah, we'll see where, and also, Alex wanted to join the bankruptcies together and have them proceed together. And this way, you know, whatever applied to the personal bankruptcy would apply to the company bankruptcy, both trustees, which I'm not a bankruptcy lawyer, but I used to work for a firm that did some of it. I have never seen a trustee object to joining bankruptcies. And the reason
Jordan (00:22:00.000)
is much less. So the punch line, the punch line to that, obviously.
Morgan Stringer (00:22:06.000)
Yeah, it was, because we're not like, what the, what you joined them for is so that it can go a lot smoother and easier. And both trustees, so it wasn't just a personal bankruptcy trustee, but the one in it for the corporate bankruptcy chimed in and said, Yeah, what that guy said, basically, which was, I've never seen two trustees file, you know, motions like that. But they're essentially saying, No, this is actually going to make it more chaotic, because what applies to Alex personally, may not apply to the company personally under the law and vice versa. And you're just going to have these, this confusion, which, you know, I'm willing to bet Alex also was hoping what he could work to his advantage, because he essentially is at the end of the day, this destructive agent of chaos, why not do that in a bankruptcy in bankruptcy proceedings as well. And the trustees are, you know, very strongly indicating to the court. Absolutely not. This is not how they should be done.
Jordan (00:23:03.000)
And yeah, the question I think a lot of people have, as far as you know, you put a point to that this will end at a certain point. I think the big question for most people is the way that Alex is doing this. Now. He's clearly stringing it out even more he's, as you said, you know, he's joining this and the trustees are saying no, at what point does this get stopped for him? Because it's clear to everyone involved, right, that this is not that nothing is in good faith.
Morgan Stringer (00:23:37.000)
Right. Oh, absolutely. And I think that this I think another thing that drew me to this case was there, I cannot stand grifter lawyers. I can't stand Grifters. I also can't stand right wing weirdos and you have this, you know. And then also I cover cases that have to do with pop culture. So you have this intersection of all these different aspects for me, right? The interest shows information, the interest in law, the interest in, you know, these weirdo figures. But
Jordan (00:24:09.000)
yeah, this is a very specific Venn diagram that you are dead center.
Morgan Stringer (00:24:13.000)
Yeah, exactly. Exactly. And, yeah, I think that we have this. We have a situation where I think people have finally said, Enough is enough. You know, we saw this with Rudy Giuliani being recommended that he be disbarred, I think Bar Association's have finally had it of attorneys acting like they can disregard the rules. They can even willfully break the rules. And guess what, here's how much it's going to cost you. And it's going to be less than had you actually participated and engaged in good faith. And I think that there,
Jordan (00:24:47.000)
it's like, it's like when Wall Street receives a fine, that's 1/10 of what they made off of the crime and you're like, well, that's that's just a cut. You know, you're just taking a 10th off the top. That's fine.
Morgan Stringer (00:24:59.000)
And I think this was a bit concern with with Judge gara gamble, Judge Maya as we call her.
Jordan (00:25:06.000)
Oh, of course. She's become an affection character.
Morgan Stringer (00:25:09.000)
She has I'm in some I'm in some policy won't communities that are very, very fond of both judges. One has, you know, fun Texas mom energy, the other one has fun New England and two energy. It's that for Judge Bella's, but
Jordan (00:25:26.000)
what a weird world we live. I know.
Morgan Stringer (00:25:31.000)
It's a strange world. But so yeah, Judge gamble was talking about, you know, these kinds of principles and how she said that the cap should not apply. And she was gonna go ahead and enter judgment for the entire thing, because she takes her oath Seriously, she took an oath to the Constitution, she took an oath, you know, but to also do what's fair. And she said, this case is unique. This was a horrible thing that happened here. And this is the only recourse for these families. And I just, I'm so glad that somebody is finally saying, you know, at the end of the day, justice is also about fairness, and what is right, and you don't want to incentivize people to say, Oh, well, if I just don't participate in discovery, I can just drag this thing out along and this is the most, you know, this is the biggest number I'm going to have to write on the check. Yeah, absolutely. I don't want to encourage that. And again, I think people are just tired of these grifter lawyers and things like I've even made, you know, back when I was in law school, I would complain about lawyer jokes, right? Oh, everybody thinks we're such bad guys. And now that I am an attorney, there aren't enough. We deserve more, hey, there
Jordan (00:26:45.000)
aren't enough. There aren't enough evil lawyers.
Morgan Stringer (00:26:49.000)
That is my position and in no other. And Mark and I are, you know, not to compare myself to the great Mark Bankston. But, you know, I think that we engage with the law in a very similar way. And, yeah, I it's just, Okay, well, it, here's the heart of the matter, and here's what it is, and we should do what's fair and what's right. And you should not reward people who you know, consistently break the rules. It's just basic stuff
Jordan (00:27:19.000)
when you when you when you take a look at I mean, we I just brought up a Venn diagram, but when you take a look at what has I mean, ultimately, strangely enough, brought us all together, you know, Dan, and I and Mark and, and the all of the lawyers and yourself and everybody is is the thing that drives us which is that this shit is unfair, this is wrong. And at the end of the day, all of us I feel like are just unable to to not watch that in the same way that everybody looks at us and goes through that you're insane for recording 705 episodes. I'm sure people look at you and say you're insane for watching all of these hearings or and I'm you know, it drove Mark insane to watch all of that Info Wars. But that's that's what it is. It's it's this is unfair. This is bullshit.
Morgan Stringer (00:28:15.000)
Oh, yeah. No, I truly have had that thought of, you know, am I am I the crazy one and then I'll see norm and be like, you know, at least I'm not doing that. Right, but and I did listen to an episode of norms podcast for the opening arguments. Patreon. It was Oh, no worst thing I've ever had to do for work, I've got to say. And I used to work at a combination Quiznos Baskin Robbins and a gas station in Mississippi. So, you know, take that for what you wills
Jordan (00:28:47.000)
those are the most terrifying words anybody's ever spoken to me. I suppose you could change Mississippi to Maine, and it would be slightly more terrifying.
Morgan Stringer (00:28:58.000)
Yeah, it was very, it was very lynching surprisingly. But if you made it more Southern Gothic, but I yeah, I think that this print these things are what you know, does draw us because you know, when you talk to Mark, when you talk to people like me, it's what ultimately drove me into law school, I think is that at the end of the day, I was always the kid who said, you know, when you would say to your parents, that's not fair. And they'd say, Well, you know, life's not fair. And I would err Sure, why isn't it and nobody knew what to say to that, you know, like you don't expect like that, like that's kind of disturbing to hear from a child if I'm being honest, but I probably lost all my serotonin by the time I was 10. So, but it's fine. So
Jordan (00:29:46.000)
yeah, I got in way more trouble with that question. Hey, I think it was a teacher asked it to me, and they said, you know, life is not fair. And I said something along those lines of, well, then why aren't you doing anything about it? And that got me in real trouble? Oh, yeah.
Morgan Stringer (00:30:05.000)
Because it can make you confront that, like, why am I not doing anything about it and exactly me going to these hearings or when I'm not acting like that's, you know, you know, substantively changing things. But I have been able to help promote these family stories I have been able to promote these causes. I didn't think anybody would would care, you know, if I was going to live tweet, like maybe one day and if somebody out there found it useful, I was going to continue it. But it turns out a bunch of people have, you know, found value in it. Some people have,
Jordan (00:30:35.000)
I think we we've all appreciated that a great deal I followed along with, with your tweets as well, you know, it's, it's, it is a I don't want to say impossible. But it is extremely difficult for me to watch a legal thing happen without like screaming at, at a judge wearing a robe. I just, you know, it's all of a sudden in my head, I'll be like, what is why are you wearing a robe? This is the matrix. This is all a simulation, you know, like it'll it'll lose, I'll lose my mind. So it's very helpful what you do.
Morgan Stringer (00:31:09.000)
No, I think we should have shorts and courtroom. I think that need to be the next. The next cause I take a bite.
Jordan (00:31:20.000)
I don't know why that got me. But whatever. Whenever she was like, and I saw somebody wearing shorts today and we do not wear shorts in my courtroom. I couldn't understand life for like an hour. What is with this is just a room. What are we doing here? All of society is alive.
Morgan Stringer (00:31:42.000)
Services a courtroom.
Jordan (00:31:45.000)
Justice anyway is dragged on Oh, are the shins going to be the problem when it comes to justice? Is that what's happening
Morgan Stringer (00:31:54.000)
is you're being dragged out? Yeah.
Jordan (00:31:57.000)
Well, exactly. That's, that's another speaking of speaking of that, you also I understand that that is doing a lot of work in that sentence. I mean, speaking of lawyers being trouble, you follow it along with Ray knols. disciplinary hearing, too, right?
Morgan Stringer (00:32:16.000)
Yes, to an extent, although it's been it's been very muddied there, you know, and it's been very
Jordan (00:32:23.000)
muddy shit balls been muddy. That's
Morgan Stringer (00:32:28.000)
between him and Normand. You know, what happened? Where and it's just, yeah, I I'm not sure exactly. What the That one I have not been following as closely. But I did find so for the for the last Texas trial as well. You know, Renault has his own attorney, which it's never good situation when you have a nesting doll of attorneys.
Jordan (00:32:52.000)
Yeah, an attorney with an attorney has always felt wrong to me like, yeah, I don't know why.
Morgan Stringer (00:32:59.000)
Yeah, it's Yeah, I mean, I would never represent myself. They say a lawyer who represents themselves has a fool for a client but, but also Infowars has a new attorney that they debuted at that hearing. His name is actually Chris Martin. It's not the lead singer from Coldplay. But again, there's like seven people in the world. So honestly, like who, you know, who's to say this? How do you
Jordan (00:33:26.000)
how do you take that job now? How did you take that job? Now you you are a person who has taken law jobs, right? At no point in time. Have you watched the most disgusting display of legal hatred that's ever been gone on and been like, yeah, that's my next gig. Right? What is happening?
Morgan Stringer (00:33:47.000)
Yeah, so this Christopher Martin, he is representing Infowars but they said Reno when he said he said in the last Texas hearing, when all said he is still the attorney on the Posner and Fontaine cases, so I'm not sure exactly what's all going on there. But I suspect that there will be some kind of disciplinary action towards probably norm and renewal at this point. Particularly with the with sanctions being asked for, you know, for her behaviors and all that just
Jordan (00:34:15.000)
what what I you know, I've heard I've heard sanctions and I understand sanctions mean money right. So
Morgan Stringer (00:34:22.000)
sometimes they do so one of the first things I did working with Andrew is actually got sanctions against another attorney which I was brand new out of law school, so that was and he had been practicing law probably longer than I've been alive, but
Jordan (00:34:37.000)
so you got your first taste of blood on day one. Yes. Well,
Morgan Stringer (00:34:41.000)
essentially, and I've been hooked ever since.
Jordan (00:34:45.000)
A vampire but yes, your blade Yeah, they're the lawyers are vampires and you're a vampire that has vampires. This makes perfect sense to me. I understand everything about
Morgan Stringer (00:34:56.000)
Yeah, and I don't necessarily enjoy like I don't want to go. I'm not saying that every attorney is like this and every attorney is bad or bad. I even like pursuing but there are particular attorneys who are truly just being absolutely wild. And you need to say,
Jordan (00:35:11.000)
Oh, of course you're talking to me hyperbolic speeches by stock and trade. So nobody's nobody's too concerned.
Morgan Stringer (00:35:18.000)
Well, I've always, uh, you know, I've been labeled a firebrand in the, in the past, which, you know, some people say, that's a bad thing. And I always take it as a compliment. It means I'm passionate and good labor about my clients. But yeah, so he is again, yeah, Judge Maya even pointed this out and said, you have a 16th lawyer to enter an appearance in this case. I thought she was exaggerating. No, he is the 16th. Lawyer. And he does he at that hearing did not know if he was going to be joining Renault on that on the Posner and Fontaine cases. And so I was like, so what does that mean? Is that Is there a possible 17th lawyer that might enter into this thing? And judge my even said, when he when he said, Yes, I'm aware, I'm like the 16th lawyer on this. She said, Well, you know, what they say about being the third or fourth lawyer on a case? Right, like, you know, again, like why would you do this to yourself? Yeah,
Jordan (00:36:14.000)
I know what they say about being the 16th lawyer on the case, though, is we've got a great baseball team, and we're really going to take it to the other associates this year. So you know, there's two ways to go on this.
Morgan Stringer (00:36:26.000)
Yeah, it reminds me of, you know, a scene from Arrested Development, where they talk about, you know, an open marriage, opening up a marriage and buy a session never works, but it might work for us. And so I'm imagining your lawyer saying this did work for you, but maybe I can do it.
Jordan (00:36:45.000)
Right, right. When you're watching this, this lawyer, talk to the judge, can you see a sense of, of dread or as I'd like, I couldn't go into that situation without feeling like there's a sword of Damocles. Literally hanging over my head, right. I'm the 16th. Lawyer. I'm like Henry, the eighth ninth wife, it's not gonna go well, you know,
Morgan Stringer (00:37:06.000)
exactly. I was, you know, I think even the plaintiff's attorneys, Bankston and Bill and West ball and in Ferrara, and all of them were even shocked at, you know, them bringing in a 16th lawyer. Now, you know, who and I mean, honestly, I'm kind of shocked. Alex hasn't asked me at this point, I would do a better job. I know everything about these cases, because I've been to every hearing, you know, because I'll, you know, I'll be it's funny whenever he'll have a, you know, lawyer, but it's like, oh, well, you know, I need to get caught up on everything. And it's like, wow, I'm caught up. And I'm not even doing this for a living. You know, which I mean,
Jordan (00:37:45.000)
like, show your case better than you do. And I have proof,
Morgan Stringer (00:37:48.000)
which by show again, like, sort of how, you know, maybe you might see that as a bit deranged. But I mean, I found it useful. And also, I'm a night owl. So I do my day job at night. And, you know, I just thought this was important. And I knew that people were going to screw it up when they talked about this. And I think that this is a case that is really setting valuable precedent. I think that there are ways that we can tackle disinformation, and the legal world, and I actually think this is a really good way to do it. Because he's innocent, you know, these people who aren't public figures are now being you know, dragged up, dragged through the mud by these bad actors. And yeah, and you know, it's about time somebody stood up and do something and say, This is enough. You know, it's a horrible process. And I would understand why somebody would choose not to pursue that, because I mean, you've seen how long this is going and how he's doing the bankruptcy shenanigans and everything but, you know, but eventually, somebody's got to stand up to a bully, which is what Infowars is, and what a lot of these disinformation outlets are. They're, they're bullies, they're trying to, you know, cause people to be harassed or trying to make money off of people's hatred and anger and divisions. It's, you know, somebody ought to somebody ought to do something about that, as, as I say, Well, we've
Jordan (00:39:08.000)
said We've said it time and time again, that one of the things that we despise the most about a lot of the coverage of the trials are regarding the Sandy Hook families is just that that simple sentence of like, the families are looking for $500 million or something that the families are requesting $500 million dollars or something like that. And it is just such a simple signal that is just wrong, which is they're they're not requesting money at all. They're stopping this guy, you need him stopped and I need him stopped and they're doing that and money is how it happens. That's like that's like saying, you know, money is the sword in this situation. Not something that they're requesting from him.
Morgan Stringer (00:39:56.000)
Yeah, and and that is, that is an interesting way actually to frame it in that, you know, it's not about the money. And you know, there's been people that have said things like, Oh, well, you know, they've sued this person and that person and now they're Sue and Alec's very the I've, I've seen comments that people have made about, oh, this is too far. Oh, this is greedy. And the thing about it is, yeah, you're going to ask because you're probably not going to get what you asked for also, you're always
Jordan (00:40:27.000)
going to, you don't go into a negotiation starting with I'll give you money. That's not how that works.
Morgan Stringer (00:40:32.000)
Exactly. And and with with this case, yeah, you are absolutely going to start off high. And the the fact is, like, it's not these, it shouldn't be these families or requesting money, it should lead with how despicable his behavior has been, and that he needs to be held to account. That's what's happening. It's like you said, I counted. Money is a way to we get to accountability. You know, there was this discussion of, oh, well, you know, enorme even kind of hinted at this and his argument, well, no amount of money could compensate for, you know, the pain. And it's like, Yes, man. But you know what, that's what we have. We can't stop space and time and make Alex go undo the damage he did. And I don't think he would if he was presented with that option. Honestly, I don't think he was
Jordan (00:41:20.000)
300 years ago, we'd put you in the stocks and throw things at you. But we don't do that anymore. So you owe us money.
Morgan Stringer (00:41:27.000)
Exactly. That's the that's the justice that we have. And yes, it is kind of weird and nebulous. When you start asking people, okay, assign $1 value to you know, pain and suffering, because, again, those are abstract concepts. And you're asking someone to put a concrete number on that. And yeah, it does get it does get very weird and fuzzy. And you know, it can get very philosophical and even esoteric there, but that's what we have. And so this idea that these families are just out there trying to get money is absolutely ridiculous, when really the story leading should be, this is what this man did to them. This is the suffering that he caused, and he knew he was causing it and he did all of this so he could sell Dick pills. It's yeah, and so he could perpetuate his weird worldview.
Jordan (00:42:16.000)
Yeah, yeah. And and you're, you're absolutely right. As far as the direction things are going when you when you talk about how these people somebody needs to stand up to this bullying. You know, for the past 20 years, there's been nothing but positive reinforcement from Fox News and right wing media in general in regards to like, just bully people bully them, that's what people want. They want that aggressive kind of attack on people all the time. And this may be one of the few times that any of us have seen possible serious consequences brought against them.
Morgan Stringer (00:42:55.000)
I think it might be the first time Alex is experiencing serious consequences. And I think that we're seeing you know, a repeat and what happens right that y'all have covered you know, whenever his dad would get them out of trouble, right? I think that this is a large case of that. I saw that one of the trust's that apparently paid his bankruptcy lawyer believers personal one, I have reason to believe that his dad has an interest in that so and yeah, so again,
Jordan (00:43:24.000)
I mean, ironically, one of the most damning things that was said at the trial though came from his dad, which I appreciate on on a on a Shakespearean level almost this man has gotten him out of trouble over and over and over again and yet with one sentence put a nail in the coffin Oh, fantastic.
Morgan Stringer (00:43:42.000)
Oh, yes. What he said I got up I think I got up and cheered when he said in that deposition tape, we tried to you know, see what Alex was saying on that day we try to emulate spikes. I was
Jordan (00:43:57.000)
already said that Yeah. That is a moment you know, a the trial moment with with Mark will will live on forever, as as one of the great law moments, but that moment whenever Alex is dead, I mean, it was it was borderline. You know, you can't handle the truth levels have to be honest.
Morgan Stringer (00:44:21.000)
I mean, honestly, you I don't know how if I was doing a case like that, and that was to my advantage. I think I would have somehow done a backflip in the Corps and I cannot do a backflip I would have somehow figured it out. I would have mentally written all over that place. I would not be able to control myself.
Jordan (00:44:40.000)
That's that's really that's really interesting, because that brings me to the next question. I have written down. Have you ever done a backflip in court? Um,
Morgan Stringer (00:44:47.000)
no. I feel like it would be frowned upon you know, I I do I have done Hail Marys though that have always worked and you know, I one of my favorite ways to win is you know, when when a judge will say Um, uh, the equivalent of you're being wild right now Stringer, but you got a point. So but, um, but yeah, I'm, I am so thankful that I got to be, you know, even a small part that I got to play here, I've really enjoyed being able to, you know, elevate these family stories and talk about them and you know, their testimony because that's something also I thought that was really important to do is to talk about the testimony of his families talk about what they went through what the harm was done, I think in that context, again, if a story isn't that they're asking for money, the story is good God, we like it. This is most evil, one of the most evil cases I've ever seen. It truly it is, especially when you compare, you know, how these families have made positive, you know, have contributed good in the world, when they have every reason to say fuck off to everybody, every reason. And yet they still manage to, you know, be positive and try to bring light and try to be a better force in the world for good. And then when you compare that with, you know, the greed and awfulness and hatred of Alex, it's, you know, it's honestly astonishing, it
Jordan (00:46:23.000)
No, it's, it's almost comically a pull of good and evil. It is. It's, it's, it's so stark, that it makes you question yourself, because real life is never this simple. You know, it is.
Morgan Stringer (00:46:39.000)
And I think that you find that a lot in litigation. You know, as I say, the truth is somewhere in the middle, right? I mean, sometimes you'll have, you know, it's it'll very often be a case where both sides are making good points. I mean, that's why you're litigating. Otherwise, somebody would have usually settled, but if it completely, you know, right.
Jordan (00:46:57.000)
If it were if it were easy, we wouldn't fucking be here. That's number one. Yeah,
Morgan Stringer (00:47:01.000)
exactly. And so I yeah, I feel like you so rarely get those kinds of situations. And I do feel like this case is going to set a precedent, you know, I think norm is right in that aspect. And that liars are going to be taken into account, people who break the rules and refuse to participate are going to be held to account and people are going to point to this case. And, you know, I know that the facts of this case are really unique here. So, but I'm hoping that this isn't a one off. And I'm hoping that you know, this, this can build into something where we are taking these people who perpetuate this amount of harm into the world to account. You know, you should not be able to lie about people in the most horrendous of ways and make money from it. I feel like that's very simple. And yet everyone seems to think
Jordan (00:47:50.000)
it's what's so crazy about it is that you have to say it, that's that should not that you should not be able to do that that shouldn't exist as a sentence in English, right? It's too often,
Morgan Stringer (00:48:03.000)
I mean, for it is, but when you say it like that, then I feel like people understand more what this is really about. This is about someone taking, you know, the most personal aspect of someone's life, especially, you know, grieving and, you know, the death of a loved one and the death of a child, which is, you know, absolutely unimaginable to me and profiting from it. And it's, I think that concept of itself is just so gross. And I think and you know, I feel like maybe I don't know, if you and Dan felt in this situation, but sometimes being worried about the jury being read pilled or,
Jordan (00:48:41.000)
yeah, yeah, going along with there's a case there was there were plenty of times where, you know, when when the jury has questions, every time the jury comes back with questions, there's the I think, the natural instinct to try and over analyze why they would ask this particular question and see if that gives an insight into what they may be thinking, you know, and so there were a few questions in the Texas trial that made me think there were at least one or two people who I was not stoked about being on the jury, if that makes sense.
Morgan Stringer (00:49:15.000)
Yeah, that happened to me too. And that's when I had to remember they might be trying because, you know, they're also not allowed to talk to each other. So they may be trying to illustrate a point for other jurors, or to clarify for themselves. And I think the guy that was asking is if Daria was a lizard person was just having fun.
Jordan (00:49:35.000)
Sure, you know, you say
Morgan Stringer (00:49:38.000)
that, but then again, you never you know, you never know it's, you know, because, but I think that you know, because we are so close and we see, you know, we do see these radicalized people in Alex's audience and even, you know, outside of Alex's audience and the concern of course is oh my gosh, everybody around me is like completely radicalized and then and anybody else is just not paying attention. And that's a huge problem, right? And we need to fix it. And I feel like this really gave restored a lot of my hope and a lot of ways where people said, No, this is disgusting and wrong, I don't have to know everything about Alex Jones to know that and that really,
Jordan (00:50:21.000)
and almost more importantly, they don't know everything about Alex Jones. Like to me part of the the jury's verdict in the way that it made me restore my you know, similarly I had restored faith in humanity is is that without the the constant pressure of the of Alex's media or Fox News or whomever, coloring the way you think about things in a in a neutral setting, every human being can come to the conclusion that Alex is an asshole. That's what was so beautiful about it. Yes, he
Morgan Stringer (00:51:00.000)
is legally an asshole. It's
Jordan (00:51:02.000)
yeah, if Oh, no complete can continue to go. Yeah.
Morgan Stringer (00:51:07.000)
So I was I was going to say and it just that that really helped with and I think that a similar thing happened with the midterms. I think that it's, you know, an understated argument for somebody to go, Hey, look at this fucking weirdo. You know? I feel like that was actually an effective argument against people like Blake masters and these weirdos and you know, the fact that we're always like, oh, man, everybody's just fucking pill to the gills. And it's like, yeah, the country by is and that's definitely something to watch and something to be worried about. But most of the country is like, these people suck. And what they've been talking about half the time. Like, you know, one
Jordan (00:51:50.000)
thing that bummed me out, was it took Listen, Herschel Walker still almost one, it took the single least qualified, most hypocritical political candidate in the history of the I think the world to lose a Republican race in Georgia.
Morgan Stringer (00:52:11.000)
Yeah, that did that. I mean, that still is, like I said, that's still concerning, but at least you know, all was not lost. You know what I mean? It's, you know, all is not lost, because at least these people, you know, are really thinking about the issues. I did love how judge bellows was so thankful to the jury, though. She kept calling them a very conscientious jury, and noting how much they were on time and everything. And people were asking me, you know, do our judges usually like five juries? And I'm like, no, because you'd be shocked. One guy is supposed to be here today. Yeah. So?
Jordan (00:52:50.000)
Sure. I mean, you think of I think most people would think of courtrooms because they do their best to avoid them as places of almost supreme solemnity. So it makes sense to them to think, Oh, well, the jury is always on time. They're always on time in the movies. You know, but in real life, it's jury duty, who, you know, I'll show up when I show up. That
Morgan Stringer (00:53:14.000)
can be Yeah, it can be. So yeah, but I think that Judge bellows really hit the nail on the head, because they were like, I saw that there were jurors that were engaged. They were, you know, I could see where people were taking notes. And of course, you know, it's very funny that this happened in the Connecticut case, too, as well as the Texas case where one juror juror is trying to take notes on something Alex is saying in a in a tape on his on the Info Wars broadcast, and they just give up because it's impossible to follow. And that that really, you know, and, and I felt like a lot of a lot of people were worried that they would come they wouldn't grasp the importance of as if they wouldn't grasp the issues. Or they'd say, Ah, yeah, he did some bad stuff. But I mean, you know, he shouldn't be, you know, solely held responsible or he shouldn't be that responsible for it. I was really worried about that. But I think in both cases now, we've seen where the jury has really really thought about these issues. And in they're not, you know, and I think also they don't like the argument that Renault and dorm have put forward because also it treats them like they're stupid. I've also never seen cases where Yeah, it's a play to the jury that that the defendant called you dumb again, golden
Jordan (00:54:37.000)
that was pretty white. Why do you think we're all blue collar here? What's What the fuck is that about? Excuse me, sir?
Morgan Stringer (00:54:44.000)
Yeah, or that the jury is you know, rig or Doria saying that she believes that it's a simulation to an extent
Jordan (00:54:50.000)
Yeah, yeah.
Morgan Stringer (00:54:54.000)
Oh, man when she when she said that to the most basic jury question like, which I think was a question that was messing with her on the degree of you know, are you a lizard person? And they're like, do you think that, you know, this trial was staged? And when she was like, Yeah, to an extent I was just like, oh, man, that was Yeah,
Jordan (00:55:12.000)
Daria. Sorry, you gave some of the great. She's gonna go on on unsung, I think in the history books for how absolutely insane she was in that trial. There were so many moments where she agreed to something that you were you looked at her dead in the eyes and just thought, if I were bleeding out, she would laugh, like, she has got nothing, or would
Morgan Stringer (00:55:37.000)
refuse to answer the most basic questions. You know, like, like a 12 year old who's getting detention like, Oh, I'm not answering it? Or, you know,
Jordan (00:55:48.000)
it's not answering was the was the main goal of everybody at Infowars. It felt like
Morgan Stringer (00:55:54.000)
it did feel like that. I mean, and I think that's also by design. Right? You You know, with a Britney paws situation, I think it was very much by design. Hey, only let her know these things. Even if she asked about XY and Z. Let's not tell her right. Right. Right. I think they're very much was that I've also never seen a random criminal defense attorney serve as a corporate representative. I mean, I've seen things in these cases. I don't think I don't think to an extent we'll probably see again.
Jordan (00:56:30.000)
I'm proud to say that we are the reason that Brittany paws was brought
Morgan Stringer (00:56:35.000)
to court. Yes. Because of well, I guess if it's I guess my wife tweeting and coming on now has officially made me part of a knowledge fight cottage industry.
Jordan (00:56:45.000)
Yeah. See, there you go. You're You're a bottom feeder, just like us. And welcome to the club. Use
Morgan Stringer (00:56:51.000)
me knowledge first. But oh, man, that was? And again, I and that's something that also I don't know, I'm like if plaintiff's attorneys are aware of me, you know, and I'm pretty sure norm name searches himself on Twitter.
Jordan (00:57:08.000)
I believe that 100%. So I'm like,
Morgan Stringer (00:57:11.000)
Oh, does norm know about me, which I don't necessarily want that happening. But if he does, and who cares? But yeah, I don't care about that. I
Jordan (00:57:22.000)
know. He knows about me. Oh, yeah.
Morgan Stringer (00:57:25.000)
Great job norm. I believe that was Yeah, cuz you were talking about the great job he did to which I quipped at you. I remember the great job norm. Wanted to give them
Jordan (00:57:38.000)
absolutely fantastic. Can I Can I ask you? We're almost at an hour. And I don't want to keep you too long. So first off, can I ask you Where can people find you? Obviously, you're part of the excellent opening arguments podcast.
Morgan Stringer (00:57:53.000)
Yes. And I've also just launched a sub stack and hope to be writing on that pretty soon. I'm in the middle of a move. So it's been kind of it's been kind of difficult to track free thing here. Naturally,
Jordan (00:58:06.000)
I understand.
Morgan Stringer (00:58:08.000)
Yes, I've done that to sort of like accompany my appearances where I host pop law on opening arguments where I talk about, you know, pop culture and law and I also talk about disinformation and debunk disinformation, about cases and such. And hopefully, I'll be having some more of my own ventures pretty soon. But you can also follow me on Twitter. You can just find me just look up as associate Morgan stringer at mo string. That's mo S T R I N G have to excellent spell it because of my southern my very thick southern accent, which I'm sure you've noticed. Yeah.
Jordan (00:58:44.000)
Don't Don't don't look up Ace Attorney. That one's on me. That was a huge mistake.
Morgan Stringer (00:58:50.000)
It was it was Ace Attorney. I feel like that rings better. But
Jordan (00:58:56.000)
it sounds good. You can steal it. It's all your life. So So yes, before, before we go, I do want to ask you, people. One of the questions that people ask us all the time after, you know, six years of this nonsense is how do you feel like it's affected you as a person in the way you think about things? And I was wondering the same for you. Because when you immerse yourself in this kind of space, the way that we have done it does change you. So I was wondering what kind of feelings that are what kind of feeling of change do you have?
Morgan Stringer (00:59:34.000)
Oh, that's yeah, that's that's a good question. So I you know, not to be thank you to be though it is you've been asking very good questions, but this is a very, very thoughtful one. So I I would actually say not to be corny about it. But I would say it actually has I feel like made me a better lawyer and a better communicator with how I talk about the law with people because that's something I've done. actually even discovered I have a real passion for is telling people about what's going on in these types of cases and providing some sort of analysis with that. I mean, I don't know necessarily what that means. But also it's changed me in the fact that I was, you know, very despondent about the state of the legal profession. And, you know, thinking of, you know, it seems like all these there's just so many Grifters in the legal profession, and it feels like the only way to get ahead is to be one of these despicable people. And here I am refusing but you know, there's no, I felt like there, there was like, no advantage of his profession, unless you were one of those types. Honestly, I started the show. But I was, you know, trying to, you know, I was steadfast and that I wouldn't sink to those levels. And I still am, and hopefully, always will be God willing. But I, yeah, I feel like I have gotten hope, again, and that there are good attorneys, that there are attorneys who care about the principles of this profession who can and there are judges who care about what's fair and justice and doing the right thing, and holding people to account and there are jury people who made up the juries, you know, as as we talked about people who say no, this is wrong, and also that punish that we are now punishing attorneys who break the rules and are Grifters and I feel like that has changed and made me a lot more hopeful about this profession, that I'm actually seeing consequences now for the bad actions, whereas it felt like before, they seem to be the ones taking advantage while everybody else was behind. So I feel like my faith in the legal depression, but legal Depression, depression, depression, that's
Jordan (01:01:50.000)
I was I was about to say that is one of the most inspiring speeches I've ever heard until you ended it with legal. I mean, if Bill Pullman made a flub in Independence Day, we're not remembering that speech right. Aliens kill us.
Morgan Stringer (01:02:10.000)
Wow, sounds good. And right, is that that thought my ADHD brain just goes into depression. We're all depressed.
Jordan (01:02:17.000)
Rushing it. You were right. In Ohio, the tsunami of good feeling.
Morgan Stringer (01:02:22.000)
Yeah. But the little confession. I mean, we struggle with depression in this industry.
Jordan (01:02:31.000)
There's, there's a reason the words are simple,
Morgan Stringer (01:02:34.000)
right. But I feel like my faith in the profession has been restored. And the fact that people are interested in hearing about what the families are saying. And what in this isn't just about, oh, Alex comes in and explodes on the stand. And then we all make memes and laugh and then forget about how evil he is. Right? Which I mean, we can all have fun. I mean, that's fine. At the end of the day, you know, when he does this weird highway man DJ stuff and prose hatchets while you're drinking in the office on Christmas Eve, right. But at the end of the day, fantastic. I mean, it is in the back. If the bankruptcy goes away, I won't you know, we'll see but I hope I can get one of those you know, as a as a gift. That's all I asked for i Do you also want the hell cat. But that might be a big ask.
Jordan (01:03:21.000)
That's, I don't know. I think he had to sell that on account of it was too little man. It wasn't manly enough for him. I think it was his rationale there.
Morgan Stringer (01:03:30.000)
Oh, yeah. It's a it's gonna be a real man. But yeah,
Jordan (01:03:35.000)
yeah, that is that is one of the things that we respect the most about you. And the people that we've kind of surrounded ourselves with is the the need to put the families first to put the harm first. And we can all have our fun after that, but not to forget that the reason we're here is because of this. Do you know?
Morgan Stringer (01:04:02.000)
Yes, exactly. It's to remember, okay, well, you know, yeah, he is he says funny stuff on the stand, and we can all make fun of him and mock Him, of course, but, you know, but that Yeah, but that we don't lead off with that, right, that we instead say, Oh, this is the harm that he has done to, you know, society to these families to you know, these the people who know these families you know, it's again, how trauma just kind of recycles itself and gets passed down and things you know, that's something I also think about is the degree of harm that really this has caused. It's done imaginable. So when you think about it that way, you know, it doesn't make the money seem as overwhelming and large, I mean, almost you almost do you get that situation where you're like, man, is it you know, is this even enough but you know, time will tell with that but I'm we'll see where it goes. Well, I
Jordan (01:04:58.000)
mean, you you you think Think about, is this enough? And one of the powerful things that they kept bringing up was, how many people were touched? Yes. How many people saw the this information? How many people were influenced by this information? And, you know, you think, Oh, 1.5 billion is is a lot. But if you just had all of those people who were taken in, give $1, we'd be at $3 billion, or whatever. Do you know what it's like, relatively speaking, that harm has caused is so huge. That because we're so unused to money being that big. It's hard to wrap our minds around
Morgan Stringer (01:05:38.000)
it is but yeah, it's also same difficulty with wrapping your head around the amount of damages that he has caused. So I think, there there's, you know, there's there's the equivalence, but we'll we'll see what happens on the appeal for the Texas case on it, that punitive damage cap applies, we'll get to see norm, lose, but I don't expect him to win these motions. I say that now.
Jordan (01:06:03.000)
Don't expect norm to win anything for the rest of his life. It was I don't expect him to win a raffle for the rest of his life.
Morgan Stringer (01:06:12.000)
It was bizarre, because again, it's I again, I mean, it was kind of like a twisted puzzle. I felt like an FBI agent doing string on the board trying to be like, is he doing this on purpose? Or is this like, there's gotta be a reason just making myself mad as I'm watching all these hearings. But, you know, it's, we'll see where that goes there. And I don't know if Norman is going to be handling the appeals or what but I suspect he will be but all that's left for there. But
Jordan (01:06:43.000)
I mean, I maintained that the the luckiest man alive is right now, just because norm exists like it for all the things that norm has done whenever. Whenever Ray now found out the next morning after Mark had dramatically revealed the texts, right. The next morning before they they the jury had gone to deliberation. I remember Ray Nall just going to talk to the judge and just being like, um, we would like to have that not have happened. Can we get an extension on the 10 days or something? He's just say he just said I want to do over. It's like, that's, that's unreal. But then, you know, now norm is like, how about you just make us pay five bucks knee?
Morgan Stringer (01:07:33.000)
Yeah, like, I got it in my wallet right now. And it's like, you're in a position to be an asshole. And they're there.
Jordan (01:07:42.000)
How are you negotiating with us? And
Morgan Stringer (01:07:45.000)
I really do think that the only way you could win or you know, there's no way you can get out with a win, right? As much as one of the moments from the Connecticut trial that cracked me up was I can't remember exactly what what it was at the moment. But Judge Bella said, Hey, we're having a discussion about objections and such and then, you know, Judge Bella said, Well, I'm assuming there will be an appeal to which Norm said what if we win, to which judge Bella's repeated herself and said, I'm assuming there's going to be an appeal. You know, this is outside the presence of the jury and everything. It just cracks me up. Oh, she was just like, buddy. Um, yeah, so that is, I've enjoyed, you know, a little moments like that. And I've certainly had my fun there. But you know, when Alex's lawyer say things like how he'll need a second job if he doesn't make millions of dollars, you know, who among us? So, yeah, that's been fun, too. So I've enjoyed those moments. And another moment that had me absolutely cracking up in the last Texas hearing was, Ronaldo was there and judge Maya wanted him to get his poster board, you know that he had his little props. I think you'll remember
Jordan (01:09:02.000)
Oh, yeah, we couldn't we wanted that so bad. We wanted that so bad. I still I'm dreaming of getting that.
Morgan Stringer (01:09:09.000)
Well, Judge bias said basically, can you please take these out of here? We had them like in the back, essentially. And, you know, all these years and Mark said that he would I think he said he would give Renault 100 bucks for him. I died laughing I just I'm so glad I was not in the courtroom in person that day because I would have oh my god, I would have had to have one of Alex's coughing fits to cover up.
Jordan (01:09:41.000)
is fantastic. I think that is a great story to end on. Morgan, thank you so much for coming on. This was fantastic. It's been a we've wanted to have you on for a while. We appreciate the work that you're you're doing you know watching all of these hearings. And we're just so grateful so thank you very much and if you want tell people one more time where they can find you all right,
Morgan Stringer (01:10:05.000)
well easiest way is to find me on the health site Twitter, as associate Morgan stringer and the ad is at mo string mo S T R I N G. And you can also find me on the opening arguments podcast occasionally talking about pop culture in law and I'll hopefully have some new projects out pretty soon here.
Jordan (01:10:25.000)
Awesome. Thank you so much, and I hope we will talk to you again soon. Andy in Kansas, you're on the air. Thanks for holding. So Alex, I'm a first time caller. I'm a huge fan. I love your work.
