Oct 21, 2026 · 55 min · 9 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.
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Rob T. FireflyHostGilaHostYou've been in the clouds for a while, Alex, so maybe you don't know all the things that have been going on.
heard of
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 connection to the legal world.
Did you follow that at all? Do you understand the logic behind that? She was saying, 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 and then you can do that.
That's totally fine if you want to be That type of person
I have a degree in English I've BA are you saying I can put BA after my name I
You could.
You could absolutely put B.A. after your name.
If you wanted to look absolutely ridiculous, you can do that.
yourself a lawyer.
All these years, I could have had something after my name to make me seem important.
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 of
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 connection to the legal world.
Did you follow that at all? Do you understand the logic behind that? She was saying, 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 and then you can do that.
That's totally fine if you want to be That type of person
I have a degree in English I've BA are you saying I can put BA after my name I
You could.
You could absolutely put B.A. after your name.
If you wanted to look absolutely ridiculous, you can do that.
yourself a lawyer.
All these years, I could have had something after my name to make me seem important.
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