Episode 2: Fancy food, Qualified Immunity and George Floyd

Episode 2: Meet Paris-based journalist Leah Gillis and New Jersey legal eagle Elura Nanos, college friends who talk current events and life girlfriend-style. Join them to hang, learn, and catch up on their lives an ocean apart. Today show features: Move over coronavirus, there’s the age of race-enlightenment happening. George Floyd’s death is a tipping point and it’s hitting everywhere. First Up: Review of life across the globe, and how Drew Barrymore’s effort to create conversation highlights the problem. – Ends around minute 5. Second: How French foodie life provides lessons in life and humility – and is fun AF. Ends around minute 10. Second: Floyd overview, the consequences of police misconduct, how TV slants our view of law enforcement. Elura takes us to mini-law school and schools us on what makes murder “first-degree.” Spoiler: the law doesn’t always work like it does on television. Ends around minute 25. Third: What’s “Qualified immunity” and why people are hot and bothered about it right now.. Ends around minute 33. Fourth: How cool are Egyptologists – primarily this one who is informing protestors. Ends around minute 40. Fifth: Omar Jimenez of CNN is arrested and things are a mess. We take a quick look at the relevant laws and discuss the non-legal fallout of his arrest. We end with a final thoughts about freedom of the press in 2020. Ends around minute 52. As always, we cover more within each segment (digressions are huge with these two), so that’s why listening is good. Today’s extras include who knew you could be a food writer, and how to handle fancy food moments.