Show overview
Opening Arguments has been publishing since 2016, and across the 10 years since has built a catalogue of 1,252 episodes, alongside 65 trailers or bonus episodes. That works out to over 1300 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a several-times-a-week cadence.
Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 57 min and 1h 13m — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. It is catalogued as a EN-language News show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 4 days ago, with 74 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2023, with 182 episodes published. Published by Opening Arguments Media LLC.
From the publisher
Opening Arguments is a law show that helps you make sense of the news! Comedian Thomas Smith brings on legal analysts to help you understand not only current events, but also deeper legal concepts and areas! The typical schedule will be M-W-F with Monday being a deep-dive, Wednesday being Thomas Takes the Bar Exam and patron shoutouts, and Friday being a rapid response to legal issues in the news!