Oct 21, 2026 · 55 min · 10 segments
Alex is in Bali, requirements to call yourself a lawyer, commending Putin, Meta ordered to pay $25 billion to New Mexico, weak CA certificates discovered, PHP vulnerabilities found by AI.
Emmanuel GoldsteinHost
Rob T. FireflyPanelistKylePanelistGilaPanelistYou guys, you've been in the clouds for a while, Alex, so maybe you don't know all the things that have been going on.
heard
But apparently, maybe it's only if you're the White House press secretary, you can say you're a lawyer when you have absolutely no...
No connection to the legal world or did you follow that at all? Do you understand the logic behind that? Where as long as you she was saying this, we're talking about the press secretary who lasted five days, a record beat Scaramucci.
And you can say you're a lawyer as long as you don't say you're an attorney or vice versa.
No, it's ridiculous.
The whole thing, I do know what you're talking about.
I have followed this glibly, I will say, but I have followed it because it was so bizarre.
And it doesn't make any sense.
I mean, it is possible for somebody to have a law degree, a jurist doctor, a JD, as you've probably seen after some people's names.
And if you have a doctor of law, as it's known, a jurist doctor, and you don't, or rather you have not been admitted to practice law, meaning you haven't passed the bar exam, you can put JD after your name.
You can put BA after your name if you have a Bachelor of Arts or a Bachelor of Science if you really want.
If you want to be very pretentious and put all of your degrees and letters after your name, you can do that.
That's totally fine if you want to be that type of person.
You guys, you've been in the clouds for a while, Alex, so maybe you don't know all the things that have been going on.
heard
But apparently, maybe it's only if you're the White House press secretary, you can say you're a lawyer when you have absolutely no...
No connection to the legal world or did you follow that at all? Do you understand the logic behind that? Where as long as you she was saying this, we're talking about the press secretary who lasted five days, a record beat Scaramucci.
And you can say you're a lawyer as long as you don't say you're an attorney or vice versa.
No, it's ridiculous.
The whole thing, I do know what you're talking about.
I have followed this glibly, I will say, but I have followed it because it was so bizarre.
And it doesn't make any sense.
I mean, it is possible for somebody to have a law degree, a jurist doctor, a JD, as you've probably seen after some people's names.
And if you have a doctor of law, as it's known, a jurist doctor, and you don't, or rather you have not been admitted to practice law, meaning you haven't passed the bar exam, you can put JD after your name.
You can put BA after your name if you have a Bachelor of Arts or a Bachelor of Science if you really want.
If you want to be very pretentious and put all of your degrees and letters after your name, you can do that.
That's totally fine if you want to be that type of person.
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