#2 -- Legally, You Can Only Be So Traumatized (The Truman Show)

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01/03/17 • 91 min

The pop culture legal team returns to discuss the 1998 Jim Carey drama, The Truman Show. In this movie, a man lives his entire life unaware that he is on an elaborate reality show documenting his every move. Sarah, Meredith and their special guest John question such things as "Can a corporation adopt a baby?" or "How much can Truman sue for them killing his fictional father in front of him?" The answers may surprise you!

--There is a slight clicking noise at the beginning of the episode, but it stops after six minutes. We can only assume it's Christof listening in.

--Leave any questions you have for the trio in the comment section at TheArtImmortal.com

--Leave a review on iTunes so more people can find the show and learn their fictional rights.

Join Ad Absurdum next month on February 3rd as they discuss safety expectations in a theme park filled with dinosaurs in Jurassic Park.

Artwork by Meredith Rose

Opening music by Adam Lord

--There is a slight clicking noise at the beginning of the episode, but it stops after six minutes. We can only assume it's Christof listening in.

--Leave any questions you have for the trio in the comment section at TheArtImmortal.com

--Leave a review on iTunes so more people can find the show and learn their fictional rights.

Join Ad Absurdum next month on February 3rd as they discuss safety expectations in a theme park filled with dinosaurs in Jurassic Park.

Artwork by Meredith Rose

Opening music by Adam Lord

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#1 -- The Spiders Can't Have Tasers (Minority Report)

Real bone fide lawyers Meredith, Sarah and Charlie discuss Minority Report, Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise's 2002 assault on the very concept of the 4th Amendment. We pose questions such as: If creepy eye-scanning spiders can come into your home, can they tase you if you don't comply? What would Antonin Scalia think of mutant humans who can see the future? If prisoners are submerged in a lifetime of dreamless sleep, how do they exercise their habeas rights? Is the best way to avoid jurisdictional issues just to deputize the DC Metro police to arrest murderers? Hear all this and more on our very first episode!

--Leave any questions you have for the trio in the comment section at TheArtImmortal.com

--Leave a review on iTunes so more people can find the show and learn their fictional rights.

Join Ad Absurdum next month on January 3rd as they discuss how it may be problematic for a network to own a baby in The Truman Show.

Artwork by Meredith Rose

Opening music by Adam Lord

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#3 -- What Did You THINK Would Happen?!?!?! (Jurassic Park/World)

At first you don't succeed, build an even bigger and more dangerous theme park! If only they had lawyers around to tell the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World crew that all of this is a terrible idea. From simple negligence to BEAR LAW, from the endangered species act to the patenting of living creatures, Sarah, Meredith and guest Matt Fink discuss the myriad of tort claims raised by the Jurassic Park series.

--Leave any questions you have for the trio in the comment section at TheArtImmortal.com

--Leave a review on iTunes so more people can find the show and learn their fictional rights.

Join Ad Absurdum next month on March 3rd as they discuss the downfall of Gotham civilization in The Dark Knight Rises.

Artwork by Meredith Rose

Opening music by Adam Lord